May 23, 2008
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
Edited by John Brockman
Short essays by a hundred leading thinkers from all walks of science including Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter. Topics range from genetics to the existence of the soul…
"From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true.
What do the world’s leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it."
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May 13, 2008
Movies I saw and liked during April:
CD of the month: My Secret Life (Sonia Dada)
Book of the month: What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (edited by John Brockman)
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: Pan’s Labyrinth, 3:10 to Yuma, Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling, My Secret Life, Sonia Dada, What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, John Brockman, movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month
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April 25, 2008
Movies I saw and liked during March:
CD of the month: Soul on Fire (Jenny Bruce).
Book of the month: The Mythical Man-Month (Frederick P. Brooks).
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: Exorcist, Undisputed, Oxygen, Shooting Elizabeth, Land of the Blind, Soul on Fire, jenny Bruce, The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month
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April 4, 2008
Movies I saw and liked during February, in no particular order:
CD of the month: Happenstance (Rachel Yamagata).
Book of the month: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There (Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter).
Disappointing movie: The Kingdom
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: No Country for Old Men, Hearts of the West, Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Blythe Danner Andy Griffith, The Company, American Gun, Happenstance, Rachel Yamagata, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter, movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, Snakes on a Plane
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March 3, 2008
Best movies I saw during January 2008…
Disappointing movie: The In-Laws (with Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas), a needless remake of the excellent 1979 Peter Falk-Alan Arkin The In-Laws.
CD of the month: Eastmountainsouth. Finally found this CD at Borders in San Francisco.
Book of the month: The Cold Six Thousand (James Ellroy)
Most odious movie I’ve ever seen: Snakes on a Plane.
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: Gone Baby Gone, American Gangster, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Black Windmill, Michael Caine, The In-Laws, Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Eastmountainsouth, The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy, movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, Snakes on a Plane
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February 4, 2008
Saw a few good movies last month…
Book of the month: The Thirtheenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
CD of the month: A Moment in Time (Anathema)
Disappointing movie: Black Dahlia
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, I Am Legend, Following, Christopher Nolan, Blood, Guts Bullets and Octane, Joe Carnahan, David Gilmour, Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield, Anathema
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December 12, 2007
Saw some good movies last month… here they are in order of preference…
Book of the month: Killer Angels
CD of the month: Icky Thump (White Stripes)
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, Why We Fight, Lions for Lambs, Compulsion, Orson Welles, Click, Killer Angels, Icky Thump, White Stripes
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November 2, 2007
Some excellent movies this past month… here they are in order of preference…
- Mirrormask
- Sweeney Todd. The original play is supposed to be macabre yet darkly humorous ("The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"). The movie is just chilling and totally believable. The excellent Ray Winstone stars.
- Inland Empire. David Lynch. Strange.
- RKO 481 – The Battle over Citizen Kane. Details the all-out struggle between Orson Welles and media mogul William Randolph Hearst, and how this great movie almost never got made.
Book of the month: Flatland (Edwin Abbott)
CD of the month: The Beginning Stages Of… (The Polyphonic Spree)
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, Mirrormask, Sweeney Todd, Inland Enpire, David Lynch, RKO 481, Citizen Kane, Flatland, Edwin Abbott, The Polyphonic Spree
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October 12, 2007
Some great movies this past month… here they are in order of preference…
Book of the month: Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)
CD of the month: Haunted (Poe)
Disappointing movie of the month: Premonition.
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: movies, best movies, movies of the month, CDs, best CDs, CDs of the month, books, best books, books of the month, The Bourne Ultimatum, Red Rock West, Nicolas Cage, John Dahl, Mute Witness, Arabesque, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, The I Inside, Ryan Philippe, Thunderstruck, Erik Larson, Haunted, Poe
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September 7, 2007
Saw some good movies last month, here they are in order of preference…
Book of the month: The Untouchable (John Banville)
CD of the month: Chariot (Gavin Degraw)
Other Best Movie posts:
Tags: The Cincinnati Kid, poker, movies, best movies, movies of the month, Shopgirl, Derailed, Die Hard, Die Hard 4.0, Ocean’s Thirteen, Employee of the Month, Matt Dillon, Chariot, Gavin DeGraw, The Untouchable, John Banville, Paul Anka
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