Bibliophilia:
I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. Vladimir Nabokov The other day after brunch, my friend Rebecca Watson said to me, "Skepchick is still getting nine hundred hits...
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Posted on December 29, 2008 9:33 PM • 7 Comments •
On the evening of the twenty-fifth, my family and I were watching the DVD I'd given my mother for Christmas, All The President's Men (1976). This was, she told me, the movie which got everybody to go to journalism school;...
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Posted on December 29, 2008 11:31 AM • 2 Comments •
I have been informed that Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians (2007) is now available in audiobook format from Cherry Hill Publishing. Cherry Hill is now selling an eight-CD recording of the book read by the author, with a foreword by John...
Posted on December 26, 2008 1:15 PM • 5 Comments •
1968. The Protectorate has fallen. The nation of Andalus is rebuilding after a bloody civil war, their efforts organized by an elite set of calculating technocrats. Just when life has almost achieved a kind of normality, one of their colleagues...
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Posted on December 15, 2008 7:16 PM • 18 Comments •
I've received word of a new book, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate, by the University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank. The Constant Fire, currently available from the University of California Press, is being billed as a...
Posted on December 8, 2008 9:30 AM • 7 Comments •
I know several people, both in real life and on the Intergrid, who have suffered through National Novel Writing Month. Chronologically speaking, that month is wrapping up; the terminator of those projects is sweeping around the globe. But, when the...
Posted on November 30, 2008 1:04 PM • 5 Comments •
It's here! You could buy one for your Mother; you could buy one for your Pop You could buy one for your Pastor just to hear him holler "stop!" You could buy a bunch, and swap out all the hymnals...
Posted on November 16, 2008 8:03 PM • 4 Comments •
The Immortal Storm of daily life.
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Posted on November 12, 2008 10:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Make your own maybe-they-can-clone-him jokes. And, if you prefer, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, particularly given how much has already been said....
Posted on November 5, 2008 4:29 PM • 2 Comments •
Cuttlefish, deemed by popular acclamation the Poet Laureate of the Scientific Blogohedron, celebrates one full year of blogging today, and announces that a book of poems is in the works. Go forth and congratulate!...
Posted on October 23, 2008 1:47 PM • 2 Comments •
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