Saturday - July 07, 2007My review of Gutkind's Almost Human: Making Robots ThinkI recently read Lee Gutkind's book
Almost Human: Making Robots
Think, published by W. W. Norton in 2006. It
is about the place where I've spent most of my working life, so I was curious to
see if he told the truth about the people I know. The rapid manufacturing
project I work on is not mentioned in this book.
Monday - February 14, 2005My review of Bagemihl's Biological ExuberanceAs a follow-up to the gay penguin story, I've
decided to repost my 1999 review of Bruce Bagemihl's book,
Biological Exuberance: Animal
Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Saturday - January 15, 2005America (The Book) Unbanned in MississippiThe board of the Jackson-George Regional Library
System in Mississippi voted 5-2 to reverse the ban on Jon Stewart's
America (The
Book), after receiving more than 400 emails,
90% from out of state and almost all of them critical of the
ban.
Monday - January 10, 2005America (The Book) banned in MississippiJon Stewart's best seller
America (The Book), A Citizen's Guide
to Democracy Inaction has been banned by the
director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System in Mississippi, according
to the Associated Press.
Tuesday - July 20, 2004Chaucer's Copyist RevealedThe
Guardian reports on a bit of detective work that will no doubt
interest many lovers of English literature. By means of handwriting analysis,
the scribe who copied Chaucer's
Canterbury
Tales and other works has been identified as
Adam Pinkhurst, "a son of a small landowner brought up a short distance from
London, who went into the City to learn a trade and make his living as a writer
of court letters."
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