Thursday, March 31, 2022

Review: Who Gets In And Why - A Year Inside College Admissions

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 Who Gets In And Why is a book about the perennial topic of interest amongst Asian parents - college admissions. It takes a pragmatic, mark...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Review: The Sandman Audible Audiobook

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 I was skeptical of Amazon producing The Sandman as an audio book. Graphic novels are notoriously visual mediums if well written, and elimi...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Review: The Comeback

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 The Comeback is a biography of Greg LeMond, the only American to win the Tour de France (all subsequent American winners having been disqu...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Review: Eternals by Neil Gaiman and John Romita

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 After watching The Eternals , I decided to read Neil Gaiman's reboot of the original Jack Kirby comics. Lots of people worship Jack Ki...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Review: A Natural History of the Future

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 A Natural History of The Future is an ecologist's view of the world, and it's the best introduction to ecological thinking that I...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Review: When We Cease to Understand the World

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When I was an undergraduate, I attended Kathy Yelick's "Denotational Semantics" graduate student seminar. There was a section ...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Review: The Science of Sci-Fi

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 I came to The Science of Sci-Fi with high hopes. I'm a science geek and I enjoy science fiction, so putting them together sounds great...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Review: This is your mind on plants

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 This is your mind on plants is Michael Pollan's second book about his experiments with drugs. Two of the drugs, opium/opiates and mesc...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Review: Self-Made Man

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 I ran across Self-Made Man  from an unusual answer on Quora where the author of the answer described Norah Vincent as a Lesbian who thought...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Review: The Order of Time

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 I've read previous books by Carlo Rovelli, but didn't seek out The Order of Time , until I noticed that Bendict Cumberbatch, who so...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Review: Evolution Gone Wrong

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 Evolution Gone Wrong is the book about humanity's poorly designed bodies.  This is such a good genre of books, that I could read multi...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Review: How Democracies Die

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 How Democracies Die was published in January 2018, two years before the January 6th, 2020 insurrection. I mention this because if you read...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Review: Pixel 6

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 A variety of circumstances (both security related) led my wife and I to both end up with Pixel 6 . First, Boen locked himself out of his Pi...
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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Review: The Genetic Lottery - Why DNA matters for Social Equality

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  The Genetic Lottery is a book about the social and research implications of gene studies and research. It sets out to defend gene studies...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Review: Cycorldpro Multi-Pocket Hiking Shorts #9

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 I've been using the Columbia Trail Splash shorts for daily wear, but for weekend mountain biking, don't use them because they...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Review: The Dawn of Everything

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  The Dawn of Everything comes with the subtitle A New History of Humanity. It stands proudly against books such as Sapiens and their glib,...
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Monday, January 31, 2022

Review: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail

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 I was so impressed by Principles that when I couldn't get a copy of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, I used one ...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Review: T - The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

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 T is written by Carole Hooven, a Harvard evolutionary biologist. The book is about testosterone, but as a side effect it teaches many inci...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Review: Immune

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  Immune is a layman's introduction to immunology. Written by a German science popularizer, it's written in easily understood vernac...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Review: Himawari House

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 Himawari House showed up in one of the "best comics of the year" lists and while it was labelled an "indie comic", it ...