gwern comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong

25 Post author: NancyLebovitz 09 August 2010 08:03PM

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Comment author: tonsure 11 August 2010 05:35:25PM *  0 points [-]

The guy knows his stuff and can be quite entertaining.

Check his video over on EDGE on TOXO (the cat lady parasite). At the end he mentions an avenue for research he's working on into a possible mechanism by which stress damages chromosomes

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html

20 minutes well spent.

I agree the Zebra book was a little boring, but it fits right in w/ the recurrent OB theme on status and health