Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about Paul Graham’s essay, The Top Idea in Your Mind.…
Still behind! Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar …, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel M. Klein The Curious Case…
David Duchovny, why don’t you love me? Or, if you’re like me and have never seen the X-Files, you could…
On a completely different note, I’m officially making this article required reading for anyone who wants to talk to me…
In Stanley Fish’s post on plagiarism, he argues that plagiarism is not a “big moral deal” – a phrase I’m…
More books! (And musings on creativity, below the cut.) Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child Relentless, Dean Koontz Undone, Karin Slaughter The…
From the MIT report on women science faculty: Each generation of young women, including those who are currently senior faculty,…
Oh, Shannara! I discovered Shannara young; it reminds me of endless Saturday afternoons sprawled across my bed, reading in a…
Over the last two months I’ve been working intensely on my dissertation. If you’re wondering whether this relates to my…
Oh look! A Dark Tower binge! The Gunslinger, Stephen King The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King The Waste Lands,…