1. There is a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for people who write, “This type of result can be extended to higher dimensions, see e.g. [reference1]”, where [reference1] is a 300 page book. How difficult could it have been to cite a specific theorem? a page number? A section? a chapter? … More Four remarks on citations
*** Spoilers included. But I don’t think you should care, because this is a horrible book and you should not read it. That’s also a spoiler. *** Recipe: take about 200 grams of insightful ideas concerning civilization and space exploration, slice ’em and dice ’em, then mix in about 10 kilos of misogyny, extreme cherry-picking … More Book Review: Ringworld
I got Joseph Rosenbloom’s “Giant Book of Jokes” when I was around 9. It contains over one thousand jokes, which really might seem like quite a lot for a young boy. In an age before the graphical image macros and social media, one did have to resort to books to get some literary humor. I … More I don’t like spinach: Book Review: Giant Book of Jokes
Damnit, the kid wants a bedtime story again before she goes to sleep. This would ordinarily be fine, mind you, if the brat had let you read a proper book, like one of Jules Verne’s adventures, or a classic by Dumas, or Feynman’s Lectures on Physics: Volume I. But no, we can’t have nice things … More Book review: The Book of Wonder
10 VI 2015. I finally decided to replenish the endless yet dwindling tower of books that sits near my bedstand, waiting in vain to be read. Armed with only my credit card, I directed my browser to amazon.com. 2000 NIS worth of books later, a small library is now headed my way, including “Quantum Computation … More Book review: The Futurological Congress
They are on your hands. They are in your food. They are underneath the carpet. They are in your gut. They are in your butt. They colonize your teeth. They prowl the house while you sleep. They crawl on your skin at this very moment. Chances are, they will kill you. If they won’t, they … More Book Review: The Secret Life of Germs
By our beloved free encyclopedia, “Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy or technical detail, or on both.” When I (discreetly) mentioned to my friend that I might be interested in that sort of thing, he suggested reading Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama”. I did, … More Book review: Imperial Earth
*** spoiler included *** Do you know that feeling where you say to yourself “I’ll just check out this article on wikipedia” and then five hours later when you finally raise your head from the screen and gasp for air after having dredged half the the internet you cannot help but wonder “where the hell … More Book review: The Andromeda Strain
Imagine you are a child. Your parents have just told you they have a surprise for you, and are going to take you somewhere special. Excited, you let them blindfold you and get in the car. As the drive goes on, a million (or so it seems to your nine-year-old self) different possibilities pop into … More Book review: Rendezvous with Rama
Sarcastic Resonance 