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My brother and I just went to a William Gibson interview (Chicago Humanities Festival: Technology’s Tomorrow: Sci-Fi with William Gibson) at Northwestern University. Through no fault of Gibson’s it was a near disaster: the microphones didn’t work properly and the interviewer was a pretentious mess. Gibson was asked questions about his writing process (something like, [...]
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Really awesome interview (Big Think allows interviewees to talk uninterrupted) with the author of The Life of Pi, Yann Martel. Yann Martel | Novelist | Big Think
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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive. Read on, or watch the video to hear his reply… Philip Pullman on censorship and free speech — pithy and wonderful via Boing Boing
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Here’s an interesting way of look at the conflict between science and religion: there is no conflict. Practically speaking, the conflict exists, but maybe only due to a huge misunderstanding of what religion and science are. A fairly recent misunderstanding that even people living in Darwin’s time would not have been confused by. The questions [...]
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Very cool tool that graphs the frequency of words in presidential speeches over time: Speech Wars – State of the Union Addresses, History of Politics
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