You know you are a science geek when...

You are yelling at the Wall Street Journal that the surface of the moon is covered with regolith, not dirt or soil as the article keeps saying.

edit: On reading the Wikipedia entry, apparently "standard usage among lunar scientists is to ignore that distinction" between soil and regolith.

Eating Rocks and Other Past Times

I recently finished reading Salt: A World History, and really enjoyed it. Mark Kurlansky covers a huge amount of time all over the world with sequences and vignettes about salt, its production, and use. I have been on a history kick recently, and it really is amazing just how so much of what we take for granted every day has such an important history of how it got that way.

I also finished Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, which I had slowly gotten through over about a year. It is espicially interesting with regards to the recent Wall Street turmoil, because so many of the companies were involved then, as now. Some of them did not survive the current events.

I am also facinated by the great raconteur Eric Larson. I read Issac's storm, which was good, but not nearly as engrossing as his other two recent works. The Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck both give such an incredibly vivid description of the times and places they are in. He really brings forth the people and places, and I just enjoy that look at history.

This post is number 200. My interest in blogging ebbs and flows, I hope to keep it up, even if I am the main reader.