Category: writing / books
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Book Review: Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet) – A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness, by Michael Hanlon
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years of reading about and contributing to science, it’s the old cliche that the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. The method of science has revealed a whole lot about the universe we live in, but even the most well-established facts…
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Book Review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is an extremely bleak tale about a father and son’s struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. That’s about all there is to it. But between the lines of the glaringly minimalistic prose are themes of love, hope, morality, and even a bit of faith. This is not an uplifting book; it’s clear…
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Get "Smart"
Sometimes I think the universe reads my blog, because look what the fates decided to place in my mailbox shortly after that last post: Direct your attention to the lower right-hand corner, where we are assured that this edition of Get Smart has 62% more “laughs.” Having seen the movie, if these new “laughs” are…
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