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I Choosing Our Own Future, from the May issue of Reason, Gregory Benford reviews Future Imperfect, glossing on David Friedman’s views on surveillance, reproduction, and other biotech issues. ~ ~...
Wait, what? Spurning recent trends in the reverse, web comic creator Randall Munroe will be publishing a print version of xkcd. His decision-making processes little resemble “traditional” publishing....
That time again! And this week, I’ll be there; it’s been a couple weeks. Washington Square Arch, 12:30pm. Galleys of Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the United States and Europe! Really...
Mary Beth Barilla, Northeast Rep I never feel as if spring is really here until this time of year, late April. I went away for a few days this weekend, and when I returned, the grass was longer and greener,...
On the 17th and 18th, the Globe and Mail did a double-whammy review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett! April 17: Inside the young writer’s laboratory >> April 18: Waiting for the Post >> Read More ?
Genghis Khan, from National Palace Museum in Taipei Post seven in her series on The Horse in Human History Orphaned early in life, the young Genghis was forced to scavenge as an outcast for survival on...
The Japanese Iwakura Embassy of 1871-73 was among the first official contacts that pre-industrial Japan had with the outside world. Here, having visited the US, the Embassy visits Burton-on-Trent in Britain,...
Georg J. Riedel, owner of the fancy wine-glass giant, is down on beer in a recent Baltimore Sun article: “Beer is a very common drink, something served in stadiums in paper cups.” Someone needs...
Pam Robinson: Canada sales Rep Much to my chagrin, after years of school instruction, dual labeling, and signage – from soup cans and cereal boxes to official government documents – I am still not...
This egg was discovered by a volunteer at Cambridge University’s zoology museum. From the BBC: It bears a large crack, caused after the great naturalist put it in a box that was too small for it....
Today, April 13, is Sam Beckett’s birthday (1906). What better gift to have than J. M. Coetzee’s New York Review of Books review of Letters? Read More ?
The sixth post in The Horse in Human History blog series. The ritual sport of buzkashi has traditionally been played by steppe tribes with the carcass of a goat, calf, or sheep. Whereas nowadays this equestrian...
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