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Summer at Stanford includes the three C's; Camps, Conferences and Construction. Even though the summer quarter has started, these three items really keep the campus lively. Sometimes it's nice to escape through a good book. It is a Stanford tradition to send incoming freshmen three books to read. Once again, Stanford announces the Freshman Three Books. I look forward to the books suggested and this year, all three are new to me. I might not get to discuss any of the books with the Class of 2018, but it is nice to know a little of what they are thinking about when they arrive for New Student Orientation on September 16th. Here are the three books selected this year:
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
"A marvelously readable and level-headed explanation of basic science and how it relates to the issues." -John Tierney, New York Times
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love.
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris. She found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium.
Summer is here. Don't forget to pick up a good book!
Kathleen Baldwin (KB)
Editor
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