Failures in Polymathy

Technopoly – Neil Postman

The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.

Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.

This book is meant to be a critique of the newest form of post-modern philosophy, and what it ultimately morphed into.

I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

A brief announcement on the state of this blog.

This won a Pulitzer?