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Punk Rock Paleontologist... Author:  Greg Graffin It might be the opening line of a geek joke.  A paleontologist and a punk rocker walk into a bar.  But the unexpected punch line is that they’re actually a single person, someone like Greg Graffin, who surprisingly manages to incorporate these two widely disparate fields of endeavor into one body, excelling at both.   In Anarchy Evolution he tells his story, with the assistance of science writer Steve Olson. At age 15 Graffin co-founded the band Bad Religion and gained some notoriety in the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s, reveling [...]

Summer 1928... Author:  Ray Bradbury Summer.   Just the word evokes feelings of freedom and excitement when presented to the school aged child that still resides deep inside even the most jaded adult.  That special season may be the reason that the word nostalgia was created.   The joys of summer jump from every page of Ray Bradbury’s classic, Dandelion Wine, first published in 1957. Bradbury tells the story from the perspective of Douglas Spalding, a twelve-year-old in Green Town, Illinois.  This energetic and inquisitive schoolboy spends the summer of 1928 exploring the magic of this small fictional city, in a time [...]