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December 2013

• 31st • business • Harrison Owen • Expanding Our Now
• 30th • computing • Paul Cockshott et al. • Computation and its Limits
• 29th • language/translation • David Bellos • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
• 25th • maths • Mircea Pitici • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
• 20th • SF TV • Eureka, season 5
• 18th • autobiography • Randy Pausch • The Last Lecture
• 17th • psychology • William Poundstone • Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
• 17th • autobiography/humour • Allie Brosh • Hyperbole and a Half
• 17th • SF • Jamie Thomson • Dark Lord: the Teenage Years
• 16th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Defender
• 9th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Phoenix Rising

November 2013

• 27th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Whispers Under Ground
• 25th • psychology • Oliver Sacks • Hallucinations
• 15th • philosophy • Stephen Law • The Philosophy Files
• 13th • computing • Scott Aaronson • Quantum Computing Since Democritus
• 10th • SF • Cory Doctorow • Makers

October 2013

• 25th • NSC • "Zermelo Navigation and a Speed Limit to Quantum Information Processing", arXiv paper
• 24th • NSC • "Local and global models of physics and computation", abstract
• 22nd • SF • Timothy Zahn • The Domino Pattern
• 16th • web/design • David Kadavy • Design for Hackers
• 13th • NSC • "Biochemical Connectionism", abstract
• 9th • SF • David Wake • I, Phone
• 4th • NSC • "Nonclassical Computation: a dynamical systems perspective", full paper
• 4th • SWE • "Engineering simulations for cancer systems biology", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Heterotic computing examples with optics, bacteria, and chemicals", full paper
• 1st • NSC • "When does a physical system compute?", arXiv paper

September 2013

• 30th • maths/teaching • Paul Lockhart • A Mathematician's Lament
• 29th • SF • Jonathan Strahan • Engineering Infinity
• 28th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Dragon Ship
• 19th • cognition • Alva Noë • Out of Our Heads
• 14th • SF TV • Once Upon a Time, season 2
• 14th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • A Liaden Universe Constellation vol 1

August 2013

• 25th • SF • J. D. Robb • Calculated in Death
• 21st • SF • Karl Schroeder • Lady of Mazes
• 18th • web • Dan Cederholm • Bulletproof Web Design
• 11th • SF TV • Continuum, season 1
• 10th • SF TV • Warehouse 13, season 3
• 3rd • graphics • Nathan Yau • Visualize This

July 2013

• 28th • modelling • Emanuel Derman • Models.Behaving.Badly.
• 27th • SF film • Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
• 20th • SF • Joss Whedon et al • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Twilight
• 20th • SF • David Weber • Beginnings
• 15th • SF • Sharon Shinn • Summers at Castle Auburn
• 8th • SF • David Weber • A Beautiful Friendship
• 8th • SWE • "CoSMoS simulation experiment reproducibility and the ODD protocol", full paper
• 8th • SWE • "CoSMoS 2013 workshop", full proceedings

June 2013

• 30th • SF • Wesley Chu • The Lives of Tao
• 25th • SF • Gail Carriger • Etiquette and Espionage
• 18th • SF • Alethea Kontis • Enchanted
• 16th • charts • book review statistics
• 12th • NSC • "Computational models of signalling networks for non-linear control", abstract
• 12th • NSC • "The incorporation of epigenetics in artificial gene regulatory networks", abstract
• 11th • SF • Samit Basu • Turbulence
• 2nd • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • The Red Plague Affair
• 2nd • SF TV • Eureka, season 4
• 1st • charts • rainfall

May 2013

• 28th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Ashes of Honor
• 19th • SF • John Scalzi • Redshirts
• 18th • SF TV • Dr Who, new season 7
• 15th • SF • Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross • The Rapture of the Nerds
• 13th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Beauty and the Werewolf
• 11th • SWE • "CoSMoS simulation experiment reproducibility and the ODD protocol", abstract
• 11th • SF • Rudy Rucker • Master of Space and Time
• 5th • SF • John Kessel • Corrupting Dr Nice
• 4th • NSC • "Adaptive Robotic Gait Control", abstract

April 2013

• 29th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Blood Winter
• 27th • SF • J. D. Robb • Delusion in Death
• 21st • SF • Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse • Welcome to Earth!
• 20th • NSC • "Numerical Analysis of Quantum Speed Limits", abstract
• 20th • NSC • "Geometric Methods for Analysing Quantum Speed Limits", abstract
• 17th • open science • Michael Nielsen • Reinventing Discovery
• 17th • SF • Charles Stross • Rule 34
• 9th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Furious
• 7th • SF film • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• 7th • SF con • Eight Squared Con: Eastercon 2013 notes

March 2013

• 26th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • The Iron Wyrm Affair
• 19th • SF • Nathan Long • Swords of Waar
• 10th • SF TV • Grimm, season 1

February 2013

• 27th • SF • Matthew Woodring Stover • Blade of Tyshalle
• 3rd • NSC • "The Artificial Epigenetic Network", abstract

January 2013

• 26th • SF film • The Cabin in the Woods
• 14th • language • David Crystal • Txtng
• 3rd • NSC • "Artificial Biochemical Networks: Evolving Dynamical Systems to Control Dynamical Systems", abstract
• 3rd • software • Andreas Ruping • Agile Documentation
• 1st • SF film • Up

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