If you look to the right of this site’s main page, you’ll see that the links have been revamped, to reflect my new book. (The name of the website will, of course, stay the same.) The margin now looks like this:
(Thanks again to Kalliopi Monoyios for doing this update; I’m completely useless at website design.)
A tip: Readers are always worried about emailing me at my work address, but that’s the one I use nearly all the time, and the one you should use to reach me. You can find it at the “Research interests” link that you can see above. That’s also where to send your “readers’ wildlife photos” as well as other links you think I might find interesting. But please be judicious: I get elebenty gazillion emails a day and can’t even answer them all. Also, as I’ve requested before, please limit your emails to me to one per day at the most. Some readers send me multiple contributions, comments, or questions in a single day, and I find that overwhelming.
One other request: please read “Da Roolz“—the guidelines for commenting on this site. They are conveniently located on the left margin of the page, or at the link just given. I am having to deal with a lot of new commenters who haven’t seen these guidelines, and who wade in with a full load of vitriol and insults. Or, they’ll email me and tell me what I should post about. If you’re new here, please go to the link and acquaint yourself with these Roolz.
Very nicely done. I like it!
Two suggestions:
1. Add “(email)” after “Research Interests” as a clue to new correspondents.
2. Add wordery.com as an alternative to amazon.co.uk.
/@
It does feel kind of awkward to send cat pictures to your work address. But I guess whoever audits your mail use is used to it by now.
I expect tenured professors have a lot of personal discretion in these matters… 🙂
Sadly our uni’s ancient IE browser does not disply much properly any more!
Buy the book – & buy for a friend, &/or someone you want to see the (en)light(enment) as well!
I like the updates. One suggestion for consideration – Suggested reading. For example, I would love to see a list of other books that you and/or other top commenters here would recommend and why. For example, I like Shubins Your Inner Fish and Hazen’s The Story of Earth. Both are easy to grasp science.
I have no clue how such a list would be compiled or managed, so it’s just a thought.
Oh, I like that. We kind of compiled that list on a post a few months back, iirc.
/@
And I think last year as well. Probably if you search the site, you’ll find a couple of posts about it.
When we get on that topic, my To-Read list grows considerably!
“When we get on that topic, my To-Read list grows considerably!”
Indeed, almost all of my new NF reads come from this site!
Amazon loves you-all!
Like the reading list that Christopher Hitchens created for an eight year old girl? One could compile such a reading list by age (for example: kids should start with The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins) or by prowess (beginners should read *this*, advanced should read *that*, etc.)
If we do such a list, it would probably be nice for the readers to help compile it.
No, I’m not volunteering right now. 🙂
Yeah, suggested reading or “What I’m Reading” (as Sam Harris does) would be a fine addition (and I would hope not much extra work for P.C.C.).
I hate to complain, but can something be done to prevent the right-hand links menu from overlaying photos as in this screenshot?
Thanks.
Well, the photos could be sized properly so that they don’t extend beyond the margins of the body text. It’s a simple HTML tag, but I’m not sure how easy using that is within WordPress.
You can always (?) click on a photo to see it in isolation.
/@
Love the new “Author Website” page!
I think it would be valuable if some sort of “New here? Please read this.” note would appear automatically near the top of the page, where the “this” could be a hotlink to basically what you say in your last two paragraphs above.
Oh, I hadn’t looked at that.
A small design point, here and on the book pages: The large caps that begin each para should align with the top of the normal text and the second line flow around them. This is a fairly standard CSS cookbook technique which Kalliopi should be able to find (and implement) easily.
/@
Just noticed that the Amazon.ca link to pre-order Faith vs. Fact on your uchicgaco site points to WEIT instead.
The link to the left on this site looks to be correct though.
+1 on the pre-order 🙂