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Scott at Grey Matters posted the Martin Gardner documentary last week. It was awesome. This week, he’s back with more, and this time it’s a veritable treasure-trove of Gardner goodness. An...
Happy New Year, everyone. Now back to work! Playtime is over, kids. Or maybe it’s just beginning. The roster of authors this year will bring us a lot of great articles. I thought I’d give a...
What a great find! We’ve had a lot of fun with the new Martin Gardner books around here, but I always find that there is more to discover about him. David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things featured...
I love this letter. It’s a very cool peek into colonial Australia (Tasmania, really) through the eyes of Charles Darwin, of all people. Darwin is amazed that the level of social refinement in Hobart...
Charles “connoisseur of deserts” Darwin has reached Cape Town, which he finds to be a great mass of boarding houses and inns, bustling with travelers to the far East and back. The word “Nabobs”...
Factions and Finance in China author Victor Shih has an Op-Ed (below) in the Wall Street Journal today. Shih’s research examines the push-and-pull between communist party elites and banking practices....
This will be my last regular post for a while because of Christmas and teaching three courses next term at my University. These past eleven posts, see here and here, have been my personal take on many...
This is now towering above my head every day at the office. A pink tinsel tree with an Obama portrait print-out top. I should point out that much of it, including the smiling President-Elect looming 10...
Lawrence Osborn writes for Forbes.com on the impending “death” of publishing (supposedly, it’s been dying for the last 20 years). According to an editor, “Very little of the recent...
What makes a better bank? A group of experts, picked to deal within their specific area of expertise A group of smart people, working on deals with which they are unfamiliar, bombarded with data, and...
Wisconsin Public Radio produces some of the best programming in the country, and I was delighted to hear from producer Jim Packard (also of Whad’ Ya Know? announcer fame) that Paul Kinzer would be...
Ruth Wajnryb writes on something that concerns us all in the publishing world: book titles. We don’t agonize and argue over them for nothing: her essay from You Know What I Mean? shows the length...
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