Alexandra Day’s book for children in the lower grades is about a little boy who hears a story with a fairy godmother. Wanting a fairy godfather, he requests one. He’s dyslexic. Guess who responds. What a charming premise! In contrast with most children’s books, the art is good and the vocabulary not dumbed-down.
Charles Seife’s book about the Internet reveals surprising things about Amazon, Facebook, Google, email, search engines, sock puppetry, and Wikipedia. There are fake individuals, academic journals, and corporations. If something is free, you aren’t the customer; you are the product being sold. Think about it! One man has 110,000 books online. Thanks to widespread education and underemployment, too many people are writing and too few are reading. We are inundated with books and other print… read more →
Is it Donald Trump’s job to split, discredit, and discombobulate the Republicans so that Hillary becomes President?
During his long career, the Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel, M.D., has studied this phenomenon with a mind that is both open and scientifically rigorous. A lifelong learner, careful thinker, and meticulous writer, he expresses difficult concepts in words that enable the nonscientist reader to comprehend them. The desire to believe can affect research results, so sound research design is imperative, conducted double-blind with enough subjects and with control groups. Doctors and scientists, accustomed to… read more →
My talented website designer, Frederick Graham Jones, died age 59 in Prescott, Arizona, March 16, of complications of laryngeal cancer. I’m sorry, Graham.