Reviews for Chromosome Analysis Protocols

The average rating for Chromosome Analysis Protocols based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-27 00:00:00 Michael Self By any measure spending a glorious fall afternoon in front of a TV is what we should consider unwise, so that's what I did immediately upon finishing this book: I (re)watched Errol Morris's documentary "The Fog of War". It was almost a compulsion... during much of the book I found myself thinking of McNamara. And it worked: they blended well together. And, appropriately, what I got out of both was more questions than answers. I found "Wisdom" disappointing -- but come on, Who could do justice to a topic as weighty and as elusive? Hall meanders, first summarizing the state of research into wisdom (precious little, with many tales of frustration) before launching into the meat of the book: Hall's breakdown of the components of wisdom. Patience, humility, morality, altruism, equanimity each get their chapters. Much interplay between them, and a little discussion of the hows and whys, but I left the book thinking conflicting thoughts: one, I didn't really learn much, and two, I need to read it again in a year. With time, and with time to follow up on the references. I think I was too quick -- this is a book that merits pondering. More: it merits discussion. Yes, that's it: it needs thought, discussion, pausing for reflection. Find someone you respect. Read and discuss together, a chapter at a time. Let me know how that works for you, because I think I want to try that.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-09 00:00:00 Jeffrey Viale I approached this book with high hopes - after reading Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary, I was ready to dig into Stephen Hall's Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. Almost immediately I realized I was going to be disappointed. Hall opens with a montage of dropping his daughter off at school, then watching a jet fly into the World Trade Center. "Almost immediately black smoke began to curl out of the cruel, grinning incision its wings had sliced in the façade of the skyscraper." I was reminded of Art Spiegelman's disturbing In the Shadow of No Towers (essentially the same opening) - and one graphic account is plenty. You always know a discussion is headed downhill when either Hitler or 9/11 is evoked. The next chapter focuses on the pre-Socratics and the "Axial Age" - although "focuses" is the wrong verb. The ancient Greeks are difficult even in a more extended study; Hall's survey is a mashup. After that I started skipping through the book, reading intermittently - and realized he'd lost me. Two days after I'd bought Wisdom, it was on the "for resale" pile. Hall is a science journalist, so my disappointment is my own fault. I'd rather have more philosophy and science, and fewer "telling" personal anecdotes. I should have read a bit more while standing in the bookstore.