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Monday, April 11th, 2011
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother : Amy Chua
I was holding onto the book through the day and read a couple of chapters whenever possible: waiting for the eye exam, waiting for the car wash, waiting during a doctor's appointment. Amy Chua made me laugh. Amy Chua left me flabbergasted ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Human evolution is an interesting and intriguing story. However, I have never really been able to keep my Australopithecus and my Neanderthal straight.
The "Dawn of Man", which accompanies a BBC Documentary, has managed to present the evolution of man from Ape to Human as a cohesive well told ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
David Christian more or less started the field of Big History and "Maps of Time: An introduction to Big History" is thus the first and best book on the subject available today.
David's theme is the evolution of complex entities that can process increasingly larger energy flows and thus prevent disorder. ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
I have recently had an increased interest in the upcoming field of Big History. Big History tries to take the entire history of the universe starting from the Big Bang and present it in a single far reaching story. The different authors take different approaches to connect this story into ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Updated August 1, 2009 ***********
The IMAX 3D version of the movie is very good. While I wished for more 3D experience, watching the movie on a larger IMAX platform was truly a visual treat. Also going for the movie second time over made me appreciate the subtleties I missed the ...
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