Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
The Seventh Day, by Yu Hua. This is perhaps my favorite of all the contemporary Chinese novels I have read: “Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest.”
Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation. Have you ever wondered how recipes, fashion, fonts, and comedians’ jokes function without strong intellectual property protection in the classic sense? We have needed a book on that and now we have one, this is both fun and instructive.
Anyone who wants to be a writer will sooner or later confront the question: To M.F.A or not to M.F.A.?... Why Write?
Tolstoy was in his time known as a nyetovshcik, a contrarian. His views – on love, family, intellectuals – are even more out of sync today. But they are no less urgentContrarian
Eco’s not-entirely-helpful solution: read everything as soon as possible
In “How to Write a Thesis,” Umberto Eco walks students through the craft and rewards
Researchers led by Gert Stulp, a specialist in population health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, combed a Dutch database for clues.
Called LifeLines, the record contains exhaustive detail about the lives and health of more than 94,500 people
…Stulp pointed to figures showing that, in the United States, shorter women and men of average height have the most reproductive success.
The short piece is interesting throughout, and for the pointer I thank John B. Chilton. And elsewhere on the height research front, the Indian height advantage, relative to Africa, exists only for firstborn sons.
