I recently watched Thank You For Smoking. To my surprise, it was an excellent movie. It was a well-acted, witty satire of American politics, with none of the boring proselitizing that one might have expected from the title. Then someone mentioned that Christopher Buckley’s book of the same title was better. Having now read the […]
I have recently had the opportunity to read two extremely bad books.
First, about Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. Let me start off with saying that every (and I am not exaggerating, absolutely every) time that the book included a technical detail that I was familiar with, the book got it wrong. Things like Lenardo da […]
Stumbled on an article in Harvard Magazine about Mark Lehner’s archaeological studies of pyramid builders. Lehner’s team uncovered a town where the workers who had build the three great pyramids of Giza lived. The town contained enormous (by ancient standards) granaries, a fish processing hall, various food-preparation facilities, and barracks for housing a total of […]