I can't believe I am writing about Kim Kardashian. I must have a fever, or restricted blood flow to my head. But when I was browsing new biographies in the bookstore yesterday, there was a new book about her life. I picked it up, I don't know why, and then quickly put it down and rubbed my hands clean on my shirt. Kim Kardashian may be very nice …
Searching on line not long ago, I found a book on "Modern European History Since 1600" written by Carl Becker. I have been looking for a book by Carl Becker for quite a while, so I bought it on eBay. The book arrived, worn and tattered and with old, yellowing scotch tape holding the table of contents and most of the first fifteen pages in place …
Give me a good biography, a Skinny Cow chocolate ice cream bar, a couch and a lamp and I am very happy. Fiction is a struggle, and much of it, unfinished, is on my bookshelf. Recently I have plowed through biographies of Hamilton, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Einstein, and now about to finish Steve Jobs. Strolling past the biography section, I see …
The theory orfrelativity has always eluded me despite my best efforts to try to understand it. Now, finally I am getting some relief in the form of Walter Isaacson's 2007 biography of Einstein. He devotes a full chapter (the Miracle Year) to special relativity and does a great job. I am not hopelessly lost, in part because Einstein based his the …
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