Interesting
Stuff Group
Most Recent Meeting: Saturday 15 December 2012
, Washington DC
Topic: Wild Wild Life
Nonfiction Reading
Carl Zimmer,
A Planet of Viruses
Rob Dunn,
The Wild Life of Our Bodies
Supplementary Nonfiction
Fiction Reading
David Mitchell,
Cloud Atlas
Food
Video
The Raid: Redemption
A little history...
The IS (Interesting Stuff) Group was started some time in the dim past by
Elliot Saltzman and
Philip Rubin
to discuss interesting
stuff. In particular, we felt that this group would afford us the
opportunity to read stuff that we really wanted to read but would
otherwise never get a chance to (science fiction, comic books,
nonlinear dynamics, evolution, complexity, biology, fractals,
ontology, connectionism, faith healing, etc.) More importantly, the
meeting also provided another good chance to eat lots of junk food and
watch really crappy movies.
If you decide to come to one of these meetings, please bring beer, lots
of junk food, beer, and, not to forget, some beer. The after-meeting
movie
is not mandatory, but it is truly the reason that we have these meetings.
For more detail, see the IS Archive, and be
sure to check out the I.S. Blog and
the I.S. Social Media Empire.