Pages

▼
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Some Cryptic Thoughts on Cryptocurrency

›
Along with over 150 others and a studio audience of unknown size, I just finished listening to a panel of three experts including its conven...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Tooze Tomes: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World *and* Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

›
We live in a very fraught world. Only some of us worry about that. Not very many of those few share Tooze's ability to track, digest, an...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Review: When We Cease to Understand the World

›
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut My rating: 4 of 5 stars The very first sentence and paragraph reads easily and ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Consciousness and the Brain

›
  Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excel...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

诗人

›
One evening after dinner I crave a sweet Next day I load up Treats indiscriminated Deprecated by number I crave wine To also chug out of its...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

World War III "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."

›
Fiona Hill says that WW III has already started , and we're in it. Remember her? She was a truth talker at Trump's impeachment heari...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Letting Go of Individualism

›
We live in a world where the woke think that - no, the woke know that the task is to raise the consciousness of the masses so that the masse...