The byline: "Pavel Galitsky spent fifteen years in the brutal labour camps of Kolyma, Siberia. Against the odds, the 100-year old dissident is still alive and Skype'ing, having outlived both his contemporaries and tormentors. He recounts the full horror of his experience to oDR writer Ekaterina Loushnikova."
How good are farmed fish? A professor quoted in the article: "It may look like fish and taste like fish but does not have the benefits — it may be detrimental"
This is the second novel in the series that the TV show bones is derived from. Not bad reading. Based in Montreal strangely enough, althought that apparently wasn't American enough for the TV producers. Funnily enough the author and her character have more or less the same career path, including being based in exactly the same situations.
Feynman's book, based on a series of talks that he gave back in 1963. He touches on science vs. technology, the role of doubt, various questionable movements, and the connection between science and religion. His views on morality seem somewhat like wishful thinking.
Not bad... haven't come across quite this variant of the genre before. The "Harry Potter" level of reading - it'd be shoved in "Young Adult" in bookstores I'd guess.
Current approaches tend to boost the prices of food: "Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires over 450 pounds of corn -- which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year."
Quotes that speak of how terrible it was that there were "officials who doubted her story" or that "the judges referred often to the 'presumed innocence' of the defendants." Isn't presumed innocence more or less supposed to be at the base of the Western legal system? (This compilation of studies suggests a false report rate of between 1.5 - 90%, with most estimates placing false reports at a higher level than has typically been estimated for other crimes).
(Note that if you've never seen any Harry Potter beforehand or read any of the books there may be some slight spoilers in the trailer).
Hopefully this'll be better than Part 1. I've got the first 6 movies on blu-ray, but wasn't a big fan of the most recent film. Seems like half a movie, so perhaps when they release the other half (having had the opportunity to milk a little more money from viewers) it'll make the Part 1 seem a little better.
