Talk:Betsy Devine

message: OK, I have coauthored two well-received books and had 75 pages of my blog published in a third one. Making my job easier, I will skip citing locations for the two books I worked on with my husband, sparing my critics the trouble of pointing out that he is notable enough to get books into libraries without my help. Very true, but I did make a "significant contribution" to both books, being second author on Longing for the Harmonies and making a 75-page "contribution" to Fantastic Realities."
 
Not many libraries have online catalogs, and we are talking here about a paperback published in 1992, but I see that at least Harvard has a copy of my joke book for scientists Absolute Zero Gravity. 
So does Yale 
So does Princeton 
It was published only in the US (Firestone is a branch of Simon and Schuster) but it seems London's Wellcome Trust has a copy in its really excellent history-of-medicine collection.  
Anyway, I hope this is evidence beyond the warm reviews you can easily see on Amazon or elsewhere that it is a good book, one that some good libraries as well as people wanted to own. betsythedevine (talk) 20:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability: having books in significant libraries

message: These are not meant to address "notability" but to give reliable sources for statements in article about my background and life
* Married to Frank Wilczek in 1973, our two children are Amity and Mira: 
* Masters degree in Materials Science (Applied Physics) from Princeton (listed under the name "Elizabeth Wilczek"): .
* In 1988 NYT book review of Longing for the Harmonies, described as "freelance writer": 
* In book review in Nature 338, 215 (1989) described as "engineer-writer" 
* Writes a blog "Funny HaHa or Funny Peculiar": 
* Inclusion of stuff from my blog in book Fantastic Realities is cited in reviews at Nature and Times HIgher Education Review
* Liberal blogger, who edits Wikipedia 
* Working for Feedster, supporting Howard Dean -- there are a ton of Google hits of blogs reflecting these statements but nothing in real media.
* Talk at Wikimania 2006 on "Schrödinger's Wiki" : 
* I don't know if my speaker's bio from Wikimania 2006 would be considered a reference but if so here it is:  "Betsy Devine has a master's degree in engineering from Princeton and many years of immersion in geek sociology, including both Slashdot and Wikipedia flame wars. See her userpage. Her blog and her Wikipedia watchlist reflect wide interests in science, politics, and reputation theory. Dead-tree publications include Longing for the Harmonies (a popular-science introduction published by WW Norton) and Absolute Zero Gravity (a science-joke collection published by Simon and Schuster.)" betsythedevine (talk) 11:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding references to satisfy concern of "unreferenced"

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