Oct 24, 2013
By The Boomerang
We can all agree on the classics, right? The classics are great pieces of literature that show us the true nature of the human condition. The classics are classics because...
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Aug 15, 2013
By The Boomerang
In the preview for the upcoming TV-show Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, newly awakened from a slumber lasting more than two hundred years, reacts to the number of Starbucks there are....
history, watching & listening, writing & reading, american independence, american revolution, british empire, coffee, ichabod crane, john cho, john wesley jarvis, legend of sleepy hollow, lenin, sleepy hollow, starbucks, vienna, washington irving
Aug 08, 2013
By The Boomerang
There are some books that are eye-openers. They hold the promise of a good read and then they end up being so much more. My previous blog post was on...
writing & reading, history, science fiction, historical science, time, isaac asimov, hari seldon, foundation trilogy, asimov, three laws of robotics, karl marx, marxism, theory of structures, theory of relativity, seldon crisis, stephen hawking, brief history of time, anthony giddens, psychohistory, determinism
Jul 25, 2013
By The Boomerang
Say the phrase “science fiction”. What do you see? I would bet an image of the Universe has appeared in your mind. The science of science fiction is most often...