Non-Fiction – Page 4 – Failures in Polymathy

The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens- and Ourselves – Arik Kershenbaum

We are all fascinated by aliens, but what can we reasonably expect them to be like?

There is a belief that Greek philosophy informs the modern world, but for a period of history Greek philosophy was largely gone from Europe.

Hume and Smith were bros. Now you know.

I don’t think I cared much for mountaineering before reading this.

Smeriglia’s satire is good, but it works better with his cartoons.

I wanted to like this. But then again, who doesn’t want to solve the is/ought problem?

People seem to think that fame and celebrity are ‘cheat codes’ to life. Those people lack imagination.

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.