Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
It will not surprise anyone that Dave Lull has tracked down the Book TV program on Historical Scholarship Through Fiction that I played a minor part in.
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... The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) It was also in this period that the deep metaphysical problems posed by quantum mechanics first came into view. To some degree, the differences of opinion that emerged in these years are still with us today. Segrè: “Perhaps [Einstein] was even right, although there is no evidence for this. The argument still goes on.... Now,...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... Tears, tiffs and triumphs . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... right? Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... continue to rise: The New York Sun 's future . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Webinar . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The appeal of PowerPoint eludes me. As for neologism, blog isn't exactly lyrical.
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
My previous post on the matter of standing on one leg - or, more correctly, foot - was frivolous and an affront to the great explorer C.M.Doughty, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta, who used one foot standing as a form of exercise and self-discipline. Now the inconceivable Dave Lull brings me further evidence of the seriousness of this matter. Standing on one foot improves your sleep....
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Is Stupid Making Us Google? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Literature is, so far from being the property of “guardians of culture,” now that of the politically motivated despoilers of traditional culture. Most of his fellow professors have no interest in the “great” works of the Western tradition—indeed, they reject the very idea of “greatness”—except to “deconstruct” it, along with the works...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Great and Imperfect . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Ut Pictura Poesis . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I do not think that poetry is a species of painting, which is not to say there isn't some overlap.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... In All But Name . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... Terry Teachout on the NYRB Classics . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... Firoozeh Dumas scans the world for funny books. Finds a few . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... THE HENRY FORD OF LITERATURE . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) See also The Orange Bears .
