1. Why We Get Fat... and What To Do About It - by Gary Taubes
2. State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 - Dominic Sandbrook
3. Explorers of the Nile - Tim Jeal
4. The Origins of Our Species - Chris Stringer
5. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett
6. Code Talker - Chester Nez
7. The Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks
8. Sweet Track to Glastonbury; Somerset Levels In Prehistory - Bryony Coles
9. On the Gleaming Way: Navajos, Eastern Pueblos, Zunis, Hopis, Apaches and Their Land - John Collier
10. Various books on digital photography / the Sony A200 DSLR :)
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Monday, December 03, 2012
My albums of the year 2012
It was not a vintage year for music by any means – very few of these albums are destined to become classics. Still, they are all worth a listen. Links are to streams of the full albums.
1. Soundgarden – King Animal
2. Muse – The 2nd Law
3. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
4. King Tuff – King Tuff
5. Jack White – Blunderbuss
6. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
7. The Cult – Choice of Weapon
8. We Are The Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
9. Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
10. Public Image Limited – This is PiL
11. Beach House – Bloom
12. Joe Jackson – The Duke
13. Mark Knopfler – Privateering CD1 CD2
14. The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
15. Diiv – Oshin
16. The Cribs – In the Belly of Brazen Bull
17. Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices
18. Menomena – Moms
19. Antibalas – Antibalas
20. Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
21. Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc. - Re-Machined (a Tribute to Machine Head, the Deep Purple album)
22. Motorpsycho – The Death Defying Unicorn
23. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
24. Slash – Apocalyptic Love
25. Orbital – Wonky
26. Graham Coxon – A+E
27. The Wedding Present – Valentina
28. Patti Smith – Banga
29. Dexys – One Day I’m Going to Soar - only one track I'm afraid
30. Nine Black Alps – Sirens
1. Soundgarden – King Animal
2. Muse – The 2nd Law
3. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
4. King Tuff – King Tuff
5. Jack White – Blunderbuss
6. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
7. The Cult – Choice of Weapon
8. We Are The Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
9. Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
10. Public Image Limited – This is PiL
11. Beach House – Bloom
12. Joe Jackson – The Duke
13. Mark Knopfler – Privateering CD1 CD2
14. The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
15. Diiv – Oshin
16. The Cribs – In the Belly of Brazen Bull
17. Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices
18. Menomena – Moms
19. Antibalas – Antibalas
20. Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
21. Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc. - Re-Machined (a Tribute to Machine Head, the Deep Purple album)
22. Motorpsycho – The Death Defying Unicorn
23. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
24. Slash – Apocalyptic Love
25. Orbital – Wonky
26. Graham Coxon – A+E
27. The Wedding Present – Valentina
28. Patti Smith – Banga
29. Dexys – One Day I’m Going to Soar - only one track I'm afraid
30. Nine Black Alps – Sirens
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Something From Nothing? audio download
Debates, 'Conversations With...' and 'Evenings With...' are great, but I prefer to listen to them on my phone while I'm out walking, cycling or shopping, rather than sitting down to watch the whole thing on YouTube. Especially when there are not many visuals to look at. That is the case for 'Something From Nothing? A Conversation between Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss', a recent 2-hour 'conversation' and Q&A session recently uploaded to YouTube at http://youtu.be/YUe0_4rdj0U
Here are two MP3s of the audio.
Part 1 - the conversation
Part 2 - the Q&A.
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