Polymath at Large

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, philosophy, intelligence, artificial intelligence, history Short Definitions: Intelligence – the ability t...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, sports writing, essays, memoirs This was a wild card selection for me, found in the 080 section of the libra...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, sociology, neuroscience, homeostasis Never before have I stopped reading a book because I just could not rea...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, medicine, podcasting, humor When we need an operation, it helps to know a surgeon's success rate, not th...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, animal behavior, human behavior, behavioral science Dr. Franz de Waal has coined a powerful word: Anthropode...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, biographies, dr seuss, theodor geisel When I was a very early reader, among numbers of "Little Golden B...

kw: rejected books, policy It has been too long since my last post. In that time I have read major portions of three books, and in each ca...

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning Hmm. I let 12 days pass, and this showed up: The Google gnomes have updated the look of the Stats...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, language, languages My youthful conclusion has been confirmed by a linguist and the experts he cites: It is ...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, origins Dr. David Christian is among a handful of people that founded, and promote, the concept of Big Histo...

kw: book reviews, mysteries, fiction, animal fiction In the past I read a couple of the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries by Rita Mae Brown, in w...

kw: book reviews, short fiction, short stories "You can't rassle with a skunk and come out smelling like a rose." —anonymous...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, virtual reality, augmented reality, surveys, history I must have been twelve when my family and I went to a ...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, quantum mechanics, overviews I've just finished reading Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Kne...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, artificial intelligence, essay collections, essays I almost titled this post "Artificial Intelligence T...

kw: analytical projects, lamps, spectroscopy Recently a friend gave us a goblet she made that she calls Tree of Life. Perhaps there are 12...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, caves, mines, subways, tunnels, catacombs From a distance the book proclaims boldly, "UNDERGROUND WILL ...

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning Just about 8 hours ago, while I was at the church meeting, a bot in the UAR (or spoofing their URL) s...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, opioids, opiates, addictions, polemics For most years I remember, the number of people killed in auto accide...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, public health, demographics First impression: Thomas J. Bollyky should have employed a co-author. His book P...