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Dec 31, 2024 · Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem This (with its sequelae The Dark Forest and Death’s End) evokes nostalgia for SF stories of an earlier age, from authors such as Arthur C. Clarke.It starts in 1967 when a young girl, Ye Wiejie, witnesses her father, a physics professor, beaten to death by high-school students during the Cultural Revolution.
05 | January | 2025 | Occam's Typewriter
21 hours ago · Last winter seemed to go on for ages. At least, way back at the end of January I remember desperately longing for summer. And then I was made redundant, which hadn’t been on my bingo card for 2024.
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Occam’s Typewriter is a community project to bring together current and erstwhile scientists who like to write. We have all been blogging at various places over the years, independently and on networks.
01 | January | 2025 | Occam's Typewriter
5 days ago · Surprising conversations with the Vicar Part IV: 1 The Lord said to me again, ‘Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other …
30 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 31, 2024 · As is my habit my favourite photographs from the year just past can now be found on an album on Flickr. There are sixty-three in all, selected from a total of about 1800 which is quite a drop from my …
31 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
6 days ago · With a handful of notable exceptions, my book reading in the past year has not been an altogether happy experience. I worked my way through 18 titles in all, work being the operative verb in many cases.
2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 30, 2021 · Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …
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Oct 31, 2024 · “The Ruffian” is great title for Ian Leslie’s Substack given his predilection for roughing up lazy thinking. I first came across him as the author of “Conflicted”, an excellent book about how to disagree constructively, a practice he frequently deploys …
09 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 9, 2024 · When I was a child 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child… — from 1 Corinthians 13:11, NRSVA In school, I hated sports.
December | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …