I didn’t post my GAMBLE review this month.  And it was completely, and totally due to a the apathy induced by FEELING A BIT ALONE HERE. 

The book, was actually pretty good.  It wasn’t at all what I expected, nor I think at all what the media releases led me to believe, but I really liked the author’s voice and the headlong pace of the book.  It was a quick, fun, read.  Perfect beach material.  But, okay, come on – enough with the Danzig already.  Geesh.

So.  Back to the Big Picture.  The GAMBLE.  Stake in the heart?  Because I am getting a feeling of “everyone-is-too-busy-to-mess-with-it” here, or an indication that we need to seriously weed out the list.  The choices are, as I see it:

1. We take a quick poll to kill the club.
2. We have everyone vote on ten of the current books on the list, and we pare it down to the most-vote-getters.

Got thoughts?   Leave them in the comment section.

 And on to my next trick:

NPR has Science Friday.  Well, what’s good for the liberal media masses, is good enough for me.   Did you ever want to have your own personal life scientist on retainer?  You got it.  With of course all the usual disclaimers  – “This information is presented for entertainment purposes only, and should not be used as a substitute for seeking real medical advice...” Yada, yada, yada.  You get the point, which is – you cannot in any way sue me if you do anything stupid based on what you read here.

Disclaimers done.  Basically the deal is this – if you have a life science question (evolution, medicine, genetics, etc.) you want researched, ask me here, or email me with it (contact in the “About” section).  I will pick one question per week and do the research for you.  And I will blog about it here on Fridays.  You can remain anonymous if you don’t want other people to know what you asked (except to me – I need to know who is asking the question, but I won’t reveal it if you don’t want me to). 

This plan serves the dual purpose of:

Giving me something to blog about.

And keeping my cutting edge research skills and field knowledge from rotting away in my current job.  While it is administratively challenging, my job is hardly a scientific stretch.

Be aware that the depth of what I give you will be restricted to what can be presented here.  I will write for the layman, but I will provide references if you want the undiluted data. 

Bomb’s away.