by KimBoo York | Dec 24, 2017 | Review, Book
Books reviewed: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2006) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014) The Economic Singularity: Artificial...
by KimBoo York | Mar 8, 2017 | Review, Book
This time I’ve got three books that I recommend reading in a specific order, from broad-spectrum overview to a discrete, specific event that happened in the summer of 1927. I think reading these books in that order, one after another, gives a very nuanced perspective...
by KimBoo York | Feb 5, 2017 | Review, Book
So here is an interesting trifecta long-read series for your edutainment: 1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005) 2. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (2006) 3....
by KimBoo York | Jan 7, 2017 | Review, Ponderings
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016Fans of Rogue One say that it has brought Star Wars back to the feel of the original trilogy, that it has saved the soul of the franchise. Fans of The Force Awakens say that it has brought Star Wars...
by KimBoo York | Mar 20, 2013 | Paleo/Primal Lifestyling, Review
I try not to be too evangelical about going paleo, because diet really is a very personal choice and what works beautifully for me doesn’t work for everyone. But I feel I need to write about this book, which is not a book about paleo or is even a...
by KimBoo York | Aug 22, 2011 | Information Science, Review, Book
Common as Air by Lewis Hyde (2010). Quote: “Simply put, my project has been to enlarge the set of stories that might usefully guide our thinking about the ownership of art and ideas.” (p. 214) Short form: This is not a legal treatise on copyright law. It...
