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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Reading Criminal Authors
So I was in a bookstore browsing the new non-fiction when I came across “The Rational Optimist” by Matt Ridley. The cover blurb was intriguing: For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon … Continue reading
The Robot Population of Deep Space
In 1978 I heard Carl Sagan speak at MIT. The two most important space probes ever, Voyager 1 and 2, had just launched the year before, and Sagan had been deeply involved with them. It was his idea to do … Continue reading
A Niche in the Library of Babel 