Toby Mundy writes an interesting article on the state of book publishing in the October issue of _Prospect_. Genomic Imprintiing: A Talk With David Haig. ... A new phenomenon in molecular biology called genomic imprinting, which is a situation in which a DNA sequence can have conditional behavior depending on whether it is maternally or paternally inherited. 10 Things You Should Know About Security, Privacy, and Encryption, by Richard M. Smith Smith fancies himself the Ralph Nader of the computer industry. The Computational Universe, by Seth Lloyd. Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information. Edge 106: Books, Genomics, Security, Computation | 
