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THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE, by
Michael Talbot.
Universe is a Hologram.
Michael Talbot.
Universe is a Hologram.
In Burntisland , Fife , Central Scotland for the day and visited Hanselled Books
Francis Firth's " Scottish Castles Photographic Memories "
" Bruce Lee The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon " Clive Hardy
" Chastise " Max Hastings . A history of The Dambusters .
Francis Firth's " Scottish Castles Photographic Memories "
" Bruce Lee The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon " Clive Hardy
" Chastise " Max Hastings . A history of The Dambusters .
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From Amazon, probably not of any interest to anyone else and I'm not sure when I'm gonna get time to use it...
JunkMonkeyPostman delivered yesterday a whole bunch of stuff ordered from several different places over the last couple of weeks:
Tintin et les Cigars du pharaons
Tintin et le lac aux requins
Spirou et Fantasio - Volume 4 - Spirou et les héritiers
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche - L'intégrale, Tome 2 -
which collects six albums in glorious black and white
and a handful of individual issues of Spirou to fill in a few gaps.
Mrs JunkMonkey's eyebrows still haven't returned to their normal altitude
Penguin by Design. The illustrated history of Penguin cover design graphics from the beginning to now'ish. (2005)
Fascinating
Fascinating
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
Latest purchase: "May contain lies" by Alex Edmans
How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases and what we can do about it.
Very interesting so far with just one personal niggle. When he goes off piste in a chapter on Caveman logic as an evolutionary explanation on how we developed black and white thinking. To parphrase "One million years ago our hunter ancestors had no time to rest, were forced to make snap judgements and were dead at thirty." As someone with a long interest in Paleontology it's the sort of statement that makes me roll my eyes. One only has to look at other plains predators/prey to see how much lying around they do and while a long life wasn't the norm H. heidelbergensis could live up to 45 years. That's without even considering which hominid of the period out of the several wandering around you are talking about. I could go on but it struck me as a perfect example of the black and white thinking he goes on about. I keep wondering if he did it ironically but he hasn't said so yet.
How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases and what we can do about it.
Very interesting so far with just one personal niggle. When he goes off piste in a chapter on Caveman logic as an evolutionary explanation on how we developed black and white thinking. To parphrase "One million years ago our hunter ancestors had no time to rest, were forced to make snap judgements and were dead at thirty." As someone with a long interest in Paleontology it's the sort of statement that makes me roll my eyes. One only has to look at other plains predators/prey to see how much lying around they do and while a long life wasn't the norm H. heidelbergensis could live up to 45 years. That's without even considering which hominid of the period out of the several wandering around you are talking about. I could go on but it struck me as a perfect example of the black and white thinking he goes on about. I keep wondering if he did it ironically but he hasn't said so yet.
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My pleasure @JunkMonkey happy to do it.
And for the benefit of other Chroners - Belgium postal costs are eye-watering and I'm in the UK for a family visit, so it made sense to bring and post from here.
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Picked these up today. I already have Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon but I got the omnibus edition to replace them on the shelf. The two separate editions will go to a charity shop.
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Finally got a copy of Carrie!
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Today's haul. A sci, a fantasy and a horror. I'm sure I tried reading the Le Guin years ago but didn't get on with her work as she writes more like fantasy than hard sf. I'll give this one another go some time...
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Just arrived in the mail:
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That le Guin is definitely sf, and is very good.
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Todays haul. 2 sci fi and a bit of music history
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It read like fantasy to me, as did Dune. But I'll give it another go now I'm not so set in hard sf mode
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Found this on the dollar cart:
Gould wrote this kind of thing brilliantly!
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