Speaker’s Book:
Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California, by Richard Hilton
Fly on the Wall: Mr and Mrs Morgan’s Monstrous Mutants
Print:
- Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945): A Biographical Memoir, by A.H. Sturtevant (1959, National Academy of Sciences) – on NASonline.org
- Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life, by Robert E Kohler
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, by Sean Carroll
Online:
- Reconstruction of the Columbia Fly Room – Alison Meier
- Image of Antennapedia Mutation – Biology-Forums.com
- Hox Genes and Animal Body Plans – Christ’s College
- Reconstructing the History of Human Limb Development: Lessons from Birth Defects – Michael Bamshad, W Scott Watkins, Mary E Dixon, Trung Le, Amy D Roeder, Bridget E Kramer, John C Carey and Lynn B Jorde
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Rescue of Drosophila Labial Null Mutant by the Chicken Ortholog Hoxb-1 Demonstrates that the Function of Hox Genes is Phylogenetically Conserved – Genes and Development
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Evolution of the Snake Body Form Reveals Homoplasy in Amniote Hox Gene Function – Jason J. Head & P. David Polly
If Lovecraft Only Knew: Monster Squid of the Deep
Print:
- The Extreme Life of the Sea, by Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi
- Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, by Wendy Williams
- The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, by Philip Hoare
Online:
- The Colossal Squid: Natures Largest Invertebrate – The Liquid Earth
- How far does light travel in the ocean? – National Ocean Service
- Sperm Whale “Voices” Used to Gauge Whales’ Sizes – National Geographic
- Giant squids’ giant eyes: The better to see hungry whales with -Science Daily
- How Diving Mammals Stay Underwater for So Long – National Geographic
Purity and the Beast: Why Only the Innocent Survive
Print:
- Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, by Carol J. Clover
- Virgin: The Untouched History, by Hanne Blank
- Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory, by Catherine Driscoll
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Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film, by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Online:
- Why Do Girls Always Survive at the End of Horror Movies? – MoviePilot.com
- Purity Personified – TV Tropes
Mortality of Monsters: The Murders That changed Manchester
Print:
- Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis, by Ian Brady
- Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist, by Richard Rhodes
- The Most Evil Women in History, by Shelley Klein
- Dialogues with Dostoevsky: The Overwhelming Questions, by Robert Louis Jackson
- Face to Face with Evil: Conversations with Ian Brady, by Chris Cowley
Online:
- Moor’s MurderTorture Audio – Lost Media
- Ian Brady Profile and Photo Gallery – Murderpedia
- Moral Relativism – Philosophy Basics
- Ian Brady Wishes He’d Taken His Own Life Years Ago – Daily Mail
Otters: Adorable Antiheroes
Print:
- The Death and Life of Monterey Bay – Steve Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka
- Sea Otter Behavior, Ecology, and Natural History, by Marianne L. Riedman and James A. Estes (online at USGS)
Online:
- SeaOtters.Com – news, webcam, resources and conservation info by a collaboration of scientists and conservationists
- Aquatic Predator no Longer a Threat/Morgan the Sea Otter Caught After Killings – SFGate
- Video: Sea Otters: Saving Kelp Forests and Our Climate – BBC
- Animating the Carbon Cycle
- Do Trophic Cascades Affect the Storage and Flux of Atmospheric Carbon? An Analysis of Sea Otters and Kelp Forests – Frontiers in Ecology
Places To Safely See Live Otters:
- For fun and education – Monterey Bay Aquarium
- For science! – The Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab (UCSC)
- In the (super scary) wild – Kayak Connection in Elkhorn Slough (Moss Landing, CA)
The Hall of Extinct Monsters
Print:
- Discovering Dinosaurs: in the American Museum of Natural History, by Mark Norell, Lowell Dingus, Eugene Gaffney
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Dinosaurs, by David Norman, Peter Wellnhofer, John Sibbick
Online:
- National Fossil Hall – The Smithsonian
- Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America – University of California Museum of Paleontology
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Daen de Leon, Charles Lyon, Jeff Scattini, Rachel James, Christopher Reeves, and Amy Widdowson Mains. Thank you!
