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Stephenson’s REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller
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Back in 2010, I found myself in Seattle (I was touring with my novel For the Win — a young adult science fiction novel about gold-farming), I stopped by Neal Stephenson’s place for breakfast and asked him what he was working on. He said, “You … Continue reading
James Gleick’s tour-de-force: The Information, a natural history of information theory
I’ve just finished reading The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick’s tour-de-force history of information theory. I read Freeman Dyson’s early review of The Information with interest earlier in the month, and fell upon the book and… Continue reading
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Book Review: Future Babble by Dan Gardner
Today’s guest post is from Darren McKee, an contributor to the Ottawa Skeptics podcast. Want to contribute a review? Contact us.
I predict that you will find this review informative. If you do, you will congratulate my foresight. If you don’t, you?… Continue reading
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The Disappearing Spoon
The title for Sam Kean’s new book, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, comes from a prank that scientists sometimes play: they make a spoon out of gall… Continue reading
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Ariely’s UPSIDE OF IRRATIONALITY: using irrational cognitive blindspots to your advantage
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely’s The Upside of Irrationality is the followup to his wildly successful (and wonderful) Predictably Irrational, a book summarizing his many years of ground-breaking research on the ways in which people reliably behave i… Continue reading
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SUPERDAD: moving and infuriating memoir of fatherhood and crack
Christopher Shulgan’s Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood is an infuriating, moving, and terrifying memoir of self-destructive hypermasculinty and a journey to a kind of uneasy truce between the idea of “father” and “real man.”