Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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Tribe: Ernst Junger on how disasters inspire virtue
When a society is under attack, what happens to its mental health? You may think that the associated stress will cause psychiatric disorders to increase,…
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Improbable Destinies
Is there such a thing as destiny? How resilient are outcomes to changed starting conditions? This was the question that Stephen Jay Gould asked in…
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Jim Harrison
I’ve been reading a lot of Jim Harrison lately. It’s an infatuation with his work that began a few years ago but has now reached…
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Vernor Vinge Has Died: One of my favorite authors
This week, science fiction writer Vernor Vinge died. Rainbows End (2006) is one of the best science fiction novels of all time.
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The Second Kind of Impossible: The best kind of non-fiction
Short version: Paul J. Steinhardt’s The Second Kind of Impossible is the best science book I’ve read in a long time. Long version: Crystals are…
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