From Consilience:the Unity of Knowledge
“The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.” – Isaiah Berlin There is a book titled ‘Consilience: the unity of … Read more
Ebook future
I just came across an article in the Wired(link) stating that Amazon will almost certainly unveil a new ebook reader with larger screen size. While the article goes on to talk about possible tablet device from Apple as being a heavy competiton on the ebook market compared to the text-centric ebook devices, my attention span … Read more
American Gods and patterns in stories.
I finally got through the American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. He’s a terrific writer. He’s not the best writer out there or anything (he won’t be winning any Nobel prizes anytime soon, but then does it really matter anymore?), but he’s certainly above the fray in … Read more
Quick links -augmented reality articles
A quick write-up before I go off to work/last minute shopping I’ve been really into tumblr lately. Tumblr+twitter had been my medium of choice for past month or two. I want you to check out two links I put up at my tumblr on the subject of augmented reality. http://bookhling.tumblr.com/post/66220823/books-infused-with-augmented-reality-illustrations http://bookhling.tumblr.com/post/66220638/augmented-reality-graffiti-heres-a-cool-idea (((this one’s really amazing))) … Read more
My Black Friday books
I picked up my Amazon Black Friday purchases from the post office today. Here are shots of the purchases I’m especially fond of. “The varieties of scientific experience” by Carl Sagan. I didn’t plan on buying this, but at five something dollars per copy? Sign me up! “Journey through genius” by William Dunham. … Read more
A Note: Propagation of Learning
I’ve finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathem some days ago. As is usual with all his works so far, I enjoyed it immensely. This is the kind of book that grips your attention and never let it go, the sort of reading experience that many people don’t get to enjoy very often past a certain age. … Read more
Support LHC, and the Long Now event
There are two big events from today to tomorrow, one of them truly big in the sense of its possible impact on humanity and the sciences, and the other one big in the sense that it is a release celebration of a book by one of my favorite authors hosted by one of the more … Read more
Random thing on SciFoo
Just a quick update on something I found on the net by chance. As many of you would know, I will not be able to do a full post until I get some work stuff done, which should be early September… Those of you in the know would probably be aware of the SciFoo that … Read more
Joy of reading
As my acquaintances know well enough already, I love reading. There is something peculiarly tempting about the very activity of reading itself that appeals to me beyond the information, stories and knowledge that can be gleamed as the result of reading, just like the act of gaming that attracts people of all ages beyond the … Read more
Great things at the Met
I have been crazy busy lately, preparing papers for my discipline of choice (physics), brushing up on my synthetic biology, and catching up on some art related reading materials, centered around Jasper Johns. Will they all condense into some masterful singular post? Maybe… Maybe not. Regardless, I’ve been rather enjoying my new-ish vigorous lifestyle. All … Read more
