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After writing more than two dozen books inspired by mythology, Rick Riordan makes his first foray into science fiction with his latest adventure, 'Daughter of the Deep,' a contemporary reimagining of Jules Verne's classic submarine-piloting antihero, Captain Nemo.
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Open Your Hangar-Mind On Windlass Days The hangar door’s ratchet clicked with a sound attributable to Archimedes when he expounded on the titanic power of levers and pulleys while attending Syracuse University in 252 BCE, making him more relevant to aviation than upperclassman, Hercules. So why, 2200 years later, did Lockheed name its C-130 transport after the latter and not the former? Dunno, but partial disclosure: in 1967 I became embarrassingly airsick aboard a C-130 Hercules, and the USAF never invited me back, which tangentially supports my observation that physics majors tackle life’s real problems, while jocks get all the glory. I’ve been neither but suspect that had Hercules designed my hangar door, the raising instructions would’ve read: Just Lift It, Wimp.
objective truth, you will like Charles Murray's new book, pub date June 15: Murray writes two distinctly different kinds of book, long and short. In the long books (most recently Real Education, are more journalistic and less challenging for a reader not well-acquainted with statistics. (And I just noticed, looking up Real Education for the link, that its full title includes the word "reality," just as this new book's title does. Charles Murray, like your genial diarist, clings to a fusty, absurdly old-fashioned belief in objective reality quite independent of our feelings, wo wo wo feelings.) This latest Murray book is one of the shorts: 125 pages of main text, with three pages of introduction, twenty pages of endnotes, four pages of maps, and a five-page index. There are several tables and a small handful of graphs (this one my favorite);
“How did you get started in writing? Were you an English major?” The question came from a young person a few years ago. I don’t know that I consider myself […]