Here’s Steven Levitt, author of the betseller Freakonomics - you can even find that book in Costarrican supermarkets now - talking to the hilarious Stephen Colbert.
Colbert does the confident idiot act so perfectly that it’s almost hard to forget he’s not.
Not a lot of economic insight on that interview, but worth it if just for […]
I’ve been following with interest the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent who was recently poisoned using a radioactive heavy metal.
Among the most interesting is a recent Science Friday podcast on the topic, where they interviewed a professor of Environmental Toxicology and former research scientist for the Atomic Energy Agency in […]
I’d always had a low impression of audiobooks. From my bastion of literary snobbishness, they seemed too much like a way out for lazy people to claim they’d read something, when at best they’d listened to a few minutes of an abridged version.
No more.
I started exercising a few months ago. Originally I […]
I’d heard of Claire Wolfe before my friend Jorge lent me her latest book (which is also her first fiction book, it seems). I knew she was a libertarian author, and it was on her site that I first saw the V for Vendetta poster, but other than that I was a complete […]
I read Alan Moore’s latest, Lost Girls, about two weeks ago. It’s taken me a while to digest it, and only until now I understood it was because I was torn between my emotional and intellectual responses to the book.
What follows is more of a commentary on the book than a review. It’ll […]
Long time no see.
It’s all my fault, I know - I’ve been too bloody busy with offline concerns, and just completely let the blog slide. In the interim I got robbed at gunpoint, managed to release not one but two huge upgrades to our main project, started exercising regularly, moved to Mac, lost several […]