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Today is/was the Carl Sagan blog-a-thon. My participation on the designated date will be limited to this as I am in the midst of The Varieties of Scientific Experience. It is a version of his 1985 presentations on “The Search for Who We Are” at the Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology edited by his […]

Weekend marginalia

What began as a relatively brief midweek collection of items that caught my attention morphed into a much longer list as the week progressed.

A hat tip to Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading for one of the most innovative books of the year lists. Jenny Davidson at Light Reading also gets a nod for starting […]

Weekend marginalia

Looks like I wasn’t the only one impressed by Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk’s lecture at the awards ceremony Thursday. Encyclopedia Britannica’s Britannica Blog calls it “a rich, engaging, and moving text.” From the sublime to the borderline ridiculous or else from Turkey and literature to America and popular culture. What is this year’s […]

Marginalia

Congrats to Bud Parr at Chekhov’s Mistress for his undoubtedly well-deserved Google ranking. All of us who belong to MetaxuCafe are proud of you. And let’s not forget my friend MinusCar also has a nice #1 Google ranking himself. Leighanna at the University of Nebraska Press blog has a nice post on why science […]

Electric car follow-up

In response to my comment on the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, a reader brought to my attention something I never knew (although I admit being mechanically and automotively challenged). In addition to venting about the death of the electric car, he suggests also venting about big auto and the government not supporting diesel […]