Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by docartemis
Even if you haven’t finished reading Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by JK Rowling you can enjoy this podcast, which features guest co-host Patrick Pricken, from Germany. Patrick’s blog, which features movie and book reviews can be found at http://www.p-pricken.de/. (The blog is in German, but translation to English is available from [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2007 by docartemis
While I won’t be standing in line tonight at midnight to buy the last Volume of the Harry Potter series, but I will be watching my mailbox eagerly tomorrow morning waiting for the UPS truck to bring the copy I pre-ordered back in February. When it arrives I will probably start a marathon reading session, [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2007 by docartemis
While I won’t be standing in line tonight at midnight to buy the last Volume of the Harry Potter series, but I will be watching my mailbox eagerly tomorrow morning waiting for the UPS truck to bring the copy I pre-ordered back in February. When it arrives I will probably start a marathon reading session, [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2007 by docartemis
Listen to Books and Ideas #12 Now
This episode is my response to the The Myth of Free Will (2007), which was sent to me by the book’s editor Cris Evatt. I felt the topic was very relevant to my recent discussions on the Brain Science Podcast, where we have been exploring the evidence [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by docartemis
Listen to Books and Ideas #12 Now
This episode is my response to the The Myth of Free Will (2007), which was sent to me by the book’s editor Cris Evatt. I felt the topic was very relevant to my recent discussions on the Brain Science Podcast, where we have been exploring the [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2007 by docartemis
I haven’t tried to read Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Einstein because I found his biography of Benjamin Franklin insufferably boring. So I consider myself still on the search for a good biography of the most imp0rtant physicist of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, I can highly recommend physicist’s Lee Smolin’s essay, The Other Einstein, which appeared [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2007 by docartemis
by Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart is a Scottsman who walked across Afghanistan shortly after the US invasion in 2002. I listened to the audio version, which he reads himself. Like The Kite Runner, another excellent book about Afghanistan, this book is best in audio because he pronounces all those words that I would be clueless [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2007 by docartemis
The Children of Men by PD James was actually published back in 1993 and the story is set in 2021. The basic premise is that no human babies have been born since 1995 (for 25 years). This is an interesting premise, but the book was disappointing. Obviously such an situation would would have many [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2007 by docartemis
This week’s podcast is a discussion of the book Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life, with author Lee M. Silver of Princeton University. I am also putting this episode into the Brain Science Podcast feed.
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Posted on March 1st, 2007 by docartemis
I was a little hesitant to choose a controversial book, but after I read President Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, I felt the ideas were too important not to share. I also feel that anyone who reads the book for themselves will agree that Jewish Americans are being unfair when they accuse President [...]
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