On the Nightstand

If you--ahem!--find the reading on people's nightstands much more interesting than what they have on their office bookshelves, then take a look at Discover Magazine's regular web feature On the Nightstand .

Example: Here's what Yale primate psychologist Laurie Santos has on her nightstand (which is actually a filing cabinet)--

• The Squad by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a graduate student of Santos . . .  who “doubles as a teen-girl-fiction writer.” The book is about cheerleader CIA agents, Santos says. “It’s awesome. I think all cognitive scientists should read it.”
  
• The stuffed frog she sleeps with
  
• The Freedom Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson, which Santos describes as a “wonderfully British, philosophical attempt at promoting idleness”
  
• A new iPhone to wake her up in the morning
  
• Watchmen, an apocalyptic graphic novel (“a fancy way of saying it’s a big comic book”) that is due out as a movie in March
  

That's funny . . . we have Watchmen on our nightstand, too. Nice to learn that the sciences and humanities share so much.