I just finished reading E=mc*2, A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation. It wasn’t bad, but I don’t think that I can agree with the jacket glosses that it stands alone in the annals of scientific writing. Where do they find those quotes anyway? I guess that there is some kind of cottage industry attached [...]
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The Big Not-Knowing
Posted in Just Plain Wondering, Uncategorized on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading Quandry
Posted in Just Plain Wondering on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since I graduated from college, I have had an on-going discussion with myself concerning my reading. Now since reading itself seems to be a subject that is going quickly out of vogue in a world of sound-bytes and attention spans measured in milliseconds, just the fact that I am reading should give the intellectual snobbery [...]
