Tim pointed at a piece listing immoral solutions for Gaza, a piece which nicely proves that finding a good solution is impossible, and finding the best of the bad solutions often seems equally impossible.
I’m sure I’m not the only person flabbergasted by the whole Israel/Lebanon/Palestine mess, and I’ve read a few books trying to make [...]
Our toddler daughter (18 months old) likes having books read to her. Some of them are definite favourites, to be read as often as possible, while others are the ones she likes when she’s told to go and get another book. They’re not necessarily books I would choose myself, but it’s not my taste that [...]
Lest anyone think that physicists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park publishes a short weekly newsletter that touches on subjects ranging from scientific hoaxes to inconsistencies in the way the U.S. Administration handles various issues. It mostly concentrates on science and technology, but not only. The Friday, October 26, 2007 newsletter also discusses [...]
Here’s a fascinating piece discussing how fixed prices on books in Germany was actually pushing prices down (contrary to economic theory), while supporting a wide range of booksellers.
When I was last in Germany, apart from my usual beef about German booksellers not taking credit cards, I found no reason to complain about the range [...]
Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods is a good place to start in the pantheon of the Discworld books. That’s the reason we chose it, rather than one of the many others, to read in book club. There are a couple of places where having read some of the other books would give some additional depth (the [...]
The bookclub discussed Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Reading this was a reminder that one reason I go to bookclub is to be encouraged to read books I otherwise wouldn’t, and to get more out of them than I can on my own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wikipedia review) is the story [...]
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