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Via Boing Boing:
Each new book published is counted only once on this map, regardless of how many copies it sells… A book is defined as having at least 50 pages; a pamphlet has 5 to 49 pages. Publications with fewer than 5 pages are not shown on this map. Worldwide, about a million new book [...]
Since my roommate is spending his evening occupied with unselfconscious creativity, I figure I can do a little better than dredging up interesting photos from flickr. As alluded to in my 4th of July musings, I just finished Interpreter of Maladies, the Pulitzer-winning collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, which I bought on [...]
I’ve been slowly coming to a realization over the last few days, brought about by lots of time to sit around and think and read blogs and some books and think some more. What I’m realizing is how exhausted I am by how politicized everything in Dharamsala is. Everything either relates or is [...]
Via Boing Boing comes word of Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects, a book chock full of information about how to connect just about anything to just about anything else using all sorts of electronics wizardry. Best of all, it’s written for “people with little technical training but a lot of interest!” [...]
Yesterday I read C.S. Lewis’s The Case for Christianity and, surprisingly, found the gettin-saved parts far more compelling than his philosophical argument for the existence of a god. In large part, I think that this is due to the unflappable zeal with which he conjures up dichotomies, simplifies complex issues to the point of [...]
I went to Borders yesterday with Mom and Jeff to pick out a birthday gift for my dad, and, somewhat predictably, found myself spending more time pulling books off the shelf that I was interested in than anything else. High on the list of things I’d like to read soon are Guns, Germs, and [...]
Minnesota! I am happily ensconsed in my sister’s dorm room at lovely Macalester College, in balmy, tropical St. Paul, Minnesota. The last two and a half days consisted of bumming around Cambridge, catching up with Boston friends, and playing Super Smash Bros. with Jue and company. Before that was a nice, low-key [...]
I’m worried about consciousness. Really worried. I’m not worried about consciousness being too “hard” a problem for science to handle. If it makes a difference, I think that there is no such hard problem, just like there’s no “hard” problem about what makes living things live, no elan vital, once you understand [...]
I spent the better part of this evening reading bits and pieces of Second Nature, the book about neuroscience and epistemology I mentioned earlier (and found out about here) and Gödel, Escher, Bach and drinking the last of my delicious delicious Darjeeling tea. The rest of the day was spent mostly in the LEGO [...]
A little while ago I posted here the question of what existence and physical instantiation have in common, and recently the Times ran a piece about emergence and free will (now behind a paywall, grumble grumble), which got me (and Jue, too) thinking about this stuff some more. I think I’m sort of [...]
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