4451moanaDec 16, 20213 min readDeath's End (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
4451moanaDec 16, 20211 min readThe Three-Body Problem (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...
4451moanaDec 4, 20211 min readParis in the Twentieth Century (book review) Jules Verne 210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...
4451moanaNov 22, 20213 min readAnalytic Philosophy (book review) Aaron Preston The History of an Illusion 100818: i do not know if this is a five- let alone on a sort of philosophy i do not much read (analytic) but...
4451moanaNov 22, 20213 min readTime and Free Will (book review) Henri Bergson An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness F.L. Pogson (Translator) 240716 this is a much later later addition: i have now read ...
4451moanaNov 16, 20215 min readKant (book review) Paul GuyerThe Routledge Philosophers 071018 this is a much later addition (6 years): i have not revisited this book, just read the review again. it...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readFeynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life (book review) Leonard Mlodinow201227: my father did his masters in physics at cal tech when feynman was there in early 60s. he did not study but sat in on one of his...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Star (story) Arthur C. Clarke(The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke #3) 210107: from childhood. this still greatly emotionally affects me, i do not remember when...
4451moanaNov 14, 20213 min readCopenhagen (book review) Michael Frayn201209 third reading: my father (physical chemist) died 2 March and since then i keep discovering things i would talk to him about, this...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Intelligence of Dogs (book review) Stanley CorenA Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companion ??? 000s?: read this for my own writing, my interest, because...
4451moanaNov 11, 20212 min readA Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (book review) Manuel DeLanda190619 from 170113: i was sure i reviewed this, as it is certainly my favorite history text. by memory, then, six years reading later, i...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBuzzed (book review) Cynthia M. Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie WilsonThe Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy 210714: very useful book i wish had been around when young,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Making of Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey' (book review) Piers BizonyM. Paris (Design) 110516: excellent source for everything about a favourite film, that i have seen many times, have on dvd, have read the...
4451moanaNov 9, 20211 min readMoment of Grace (book review) Michael JohnsThe American City in the 1950s 291218: maybe i ordered this book. did not get it. in the years since i read it, in looking at this...
4451moanaNov 9, 20211 min readThe Water Will Come (book review) Jeff GoodellRising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World 080120: every year in february i visit my mom’s hometown of waimea,...
4451moanaNov 9, 20211 min readThe Meaning of Anxiety (book review) Rollo May 210924: exactly what title promises, in two ways, as defined and exhibited by various aspects of our culture, as to its ‘purpose’ in...
4451moanaNov 7, 20211 min readWhat's So Funny About Science? (book review) Sidney Harriscartoons from American Scientist 290914: this rating is probably by sentiment. maybe it is not a five for most people, but i read these...
4451moanaNov 7, 20214 min readThe Philosophy of Foucault (book review) Todd May(Continental European Philosophy) 030714: later confusion: discovered an earlier graphic text 'introducing Foucault', source of some of...
4451moanaNov 7, 20211 min readWhen I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me? (book review) FramptonSaul Frampton
4451moanaNov 7, 20213 min readMerleau-Ponty (book review) Ted Toadvine Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Volume IV) 241013: this is Volume 4, finally finished, still the best collection of essays...