For a long time, the most popular archived posts on this site have been those about the children to talk of past lives, which has never surprised me given how interesting and enigmatic those kids are. But recently a rival has appeared - the post Autism | Isaac Asimov and the Joys of Autism. This … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Isaac Asimov vs Vladimir Putin
Rescuing another Loner | The last Man of his tribe
He survived alone for another 26 years.
Rescuing Quotations | Flaubert and me out on the sea
All my life I have tried to live in an ivory tower. But a sea of shit has......
Rescuing reality and/or History | Karl Marx and religion | “Opium of the people”
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen Karl Marks reported to have called religion the "opium of the people."
Rescuing the Future | The attack on Salman Rushdie | his book Joseph Anton
The attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday......was a shock to me, but not a surprise.
Rescuing History | The Last Train from Hiroshima
To those who would say that we should not subject young people to the horrors of this story, I say “What about the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?”
Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
What I'm going to give you here is not all of Foroux's 100 recommended books (there will be a link to them at the end), only those of the 100 that I have read, and why I think you should, or shouldn't read them. Here's my selection: (1) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One of Rome's … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
Rescuing History | Mexico City and the 1985 Earthquake | the Mole Brigade and the Miracle Babies
Since I started these posts on Mexico, I've been longing to tell this story. At 7:18 am on Sept 19, 1985, Mexico City shook for 3-4 minutes - 412 of its larger buildings completely collapsed and 3,124 were seriously damaged. It was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, by far the strongest in the region's recorded history. … Continue reading Rescuing History | Mexico City and the 1985 Earthquake | the Mole Brigade and the Miracle Babies
Who is Alan Conrad?
.....in the same way that Eric Blair grew to like being George Orwell, I’ve begun to like being Alan Conrad.
Alan Conrad 