Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Finished (Audiobook) - "The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Liked this book - a "history" of the demotion of Pluto.  Lots of letters, arguments, poems, songs - it is interesting how much feeling goes into the classification of celestial objects.

It is nice to hear the types of discussion that go on in taxonomy - lists and labels aren't really scientific, the science underlies them, but the actual organization and definition can go many different ways - made for interesting read.

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