I’ve always had an affinity for science fiction about time travel; to the limited degree that I comprehend it, I like hard science too. Something about the fundamental and inscrutable nature of time intrigues me, and so picking up Dan Falk’s In Search of Time wasn’t a difficult decision. It didn’t turn out to be [...]
¶ Stuff
Hoarding recently got a representative–for better or worse–in pop culture with the arrival of TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive; I’ll leave it to your own judgment if this is a good or bad thing, or just how “pop culture” TLC is, but in any case, it goes to show the tabloid power of psychological problems. Everyone [...]
The recent hullabaloo both in America and abroad about H1N1 (“swine flu”) last year brought influenza back into the zeitgeist in a way it has not been for many years—more years, likely, than the last couple of generations largely ignorant of just how serious influenza was and could potentially be in the future. About 14,000 [...]
¶ K-Pax
Like most people (I imagine), I was first introduced to K-Pax via the 2001 film of the same name starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. I hadn’t even realized until some time later that it was based upon a 1995 novel by Gene Brewer. Though I generally hate comparing books and movies, I will do [...]
When Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner published Freaknomics several years ago, they gained a bit of mainstream fame as popular science writers (think Malcolm Gladwell). They also stirred up controversy with their assertion that abortion lowers the crime rate, which also raised a ruckus for poor Bill Bennett, who didn’t deserve it for once. For [...]
When I got Frederick Kaufman’s A Short History of the American Stomach, I had expected something along the lines of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses, perhaps with the cultural slant of Bill Bryson’s Made in America.
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