Jeremy Rifkin’s new book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). He is also the author of The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World (2011) and The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in … Read more
I love it when reality interferes with crazy. This cool article and podcast comes from Mother Jones. The book that serves as the foundation for this piece is Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. This Fish Crawled Out of the Water…and Into Creationists’ Nightmares Some 375 … Read more
From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog, another collection of philosophy links to drag us down the rabbit hole. Included is a review of Mary Midgley’s Are You an Illusion? and an article on Midgley’s efforts to defend human consciousness against the likes of Richard Dawkins. There is also a good interview with John Searle, one of … Read more
Science Fiction author David Brin has a new book called Existence (2014) in which he speculates on the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. He recently stopped by Google to talk about the book – here is a summary: Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston … Read more
[NOTE: I originally posted this in August of 2012. However, I am seeing clients who would fall into the definition Atwood uses for “madness.”] I am reading George Atwood’s The Abyss of Madness (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) (2011) as part of an intersubjective, relational psychoanalytic study group I have been a part of for the last … Read more
Julian Baggini is the author of The Virtues of the Table (coming in 2014) and the more well-known, The Ego Trick (2012), among many other books. In this review article for The Financial Times, he looks at three different books on the common theme of our human need to social structure. The Social Animal By … Read more
Howdy. I’m glad you’ve stopped in. My name is Christine and although I’m only eleven, I’m what some adults might call precocious. A lot has happened in my life, some of it bad, but like my dad used to say, good things can result from the bad stuff that happens to us. To help me … Read more