Category Archives: Books
New pages: books and music
On vacation this week -- I can't believe it's gone by so quickly. Since I travel quite a bit already, decided that the best option was a stay-at-home vacation, so I've spent time this week with some long-neglected home projects and spending time with the tribe.
Had hoped to go to a water park Wednesday, but [...]
New Kindle on the way
TechCrunch reports that there's a new Kindle on the way for "early Q1."
Looking at the redesign, it certainly looks nicer than the first generation devices, but on the other hand... I don't see anything that's going to inspire me to purchase the new one while my existing Kindle works just fine.
Totally agree with the post, [...]
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TV and happiness
Jeremy Zawodny posts on TV watching and happiness:
In one of those "well, duh!" moments the other day, I came across a headline on Slashdot that said Unhappy People Watch More TV. Given that I mostly stopped watching TV quite some time ago and consider it to be one of the more rude devices in [...]
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Guess that Lit degree may have a practical application after all
To provide better patient care, some hospitals are adding the study of literature into their residency programs:
According to this New York Times article, more and more schools over the last fifteen years have included the reading of Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy in medical school. They call it “narrative medicine.†But this is the first [...]
Waiting on the Kindle
After seeing Ross Turk's Kindle while I was in Belgium, I decided that I'd order one for myself -- given the amount of travel that I do and the amount of time I have on airplanes to read, it'd be much nicer to have a decent eBook reader with me than to schlep dead tree [...]
Geek out without fear
One of the things I abhor about U.S. culture is that, more often than not, a love of learning and knowledge is shunned -- being an intellectual or bookish person often means being picked on in school and mocked and/or avoided in later life. We claim to appreciate intelligence, but our culture really tends to [...]
Amazon vs. Macmillan: Authors lose, physical books win