Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Alongside Night to run in Austin; Author to Appear

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J. Neil Schulman will be in Austin for the screening of his film, Alongside Night on June 18.  We will meet him for dinner at the...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Liberty's Kids

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I was happy to have found this in a remainder bin in a supermarket.   Originally produced in 2002, Liberty’s Kids: Established 177...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Republicans for Voldemort

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The bumpersticker is amusing, certainly. It does beg investigation into the epistemology of the message.  I accept that on the surface it ...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

High Brew Cold Brew Coffee

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Austin is a great town for food.  One of the benefits of being members of the Wheatsville Co-op is meeting the local vendors who bring new...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Watson’s Double Helix: Doing Science and Writing About It

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The Double Helix (1968) is James D. Watson’s very personal account of how he and Francis Crick worked out the structure of DNA th...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

De Magnete by William Gilbert

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Apparently, no one had cut a magnet in half before.  Claims were made for the existence of gold magnets. Lodestone was a remedy fo...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Volunteering in an Emergency: What to Expect

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When disaster befalls your community (or one near you; or one you care about), helping others in distress may seem intuitively obv...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Galileo's Two Sciences

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Dover Books specializes in the reproduction of classic works whose copyrights have expired.   This translation by Henry Crew and A...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Schulman’s Alongside Night Released

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J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night is modern myth of liberation.   First published in 1979, in 1989, libertarian science fiction fans gran...