Where viewer and viewed are fused into an indivisible whole. More on Errol Morris, with Richard Powers back to help again.
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Posted on April 29, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
"Invention stopping the fluctuations of nature": Part 7 in a series on truth, evidence, and everything there is.
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Posted on February 6, 2008 3:00 PM • 1 Comments •
It looks like a lot, but really it's not (hey, that rhymes) Clearly, food is a hot topic these days. You see it constantly in the cultural dominance of things like the Food Channel, Martha Stewart, or The Iron...
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Posted on October 29, 2007 12:06 PM • 9 Comments •
Ode to "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" (1950). The "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" was Vonnegut's first published story, appearing in Collier's. That was while he was working at GE in public relations, and after he was a chemistry major,...
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Posted on August 9, 2006 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
How great is this book? It's that great, that's how much. But beyond superficial (and meaningless) qualifiers like "great," this book does a remarkable job of fascinating me, interesting students, and standing alone as entertaining fiction. I use it in...
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Posted on August 7, 2006 2:56 PM • 3 Comments •
This book is a lovely piece of prose with geat artwork that looks at the power of how certain experiences, and more specifically certain teachers can provide the inspiration that ultimately makes a person who they are....
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Posted on July 14, 2006 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
This book makes the cut, not necessarily because I find it particularly endearing (although it is a lovely story, and ever so British in a Paddington Bear sort of way), but because this is the book responsible for my kids,...
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Posted on July 12, 2006 10:50 AM • 0 Comments •
In Norway, you say "buse." As a geneticist, I am a lot more familiar with the concept of snot than one might suspect. And although this may appear to be a sort of an odd soundbite, it can be...
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Posted on July 11, 2006 9:50 AM • 2 Comments •
I thought I would start with this great picture story book, although in truth I could have easily started with another by the same author (the always irrepressible, but sadly missed away Shel Silverstein). The other, of course, is...
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Posted on July 10, 2006 6:25 PM • 2 Comments •
As alluded to earlier, I'm attending a Children's Book Workshop this week. So to stay in theme (hence also the post about the Von Trapp Children), I thought I would try to provide a children's book review for each of...
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Posted on July 10, 2006 12:39 PM • 2 Comments •