“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.” Every year since 1998, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been posing a single grand…
Category: Book Reviews
Here is my latest interview appearing in Audiofile Magazine. No, I didn’t get to speak with her, but she gave us a nice quote to use. My audio review of the book using Soundcloud is here. Click the orange arrow…
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist seen by millions as the father of African literature, has died at the age of 82. African papers were reporting his death following an illness and hospital stay in Boston this morning, and both his agent and…
High school is a place where you seem to live or die by the clique you are part of. Perhaps you’re the football star or the cheerleader captain, on the opposite end of the “popularity” spectrum are the band geeks…