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Quote: [Ever since Ronald Reagan came to power, on a platform that ensured society became sharply divided into “winners” and “losers”, and ever more people, lacking public provision, were allowed to f…

Quote: “The United States and its allies are in the worst situation yet in the long and unsuccessful attempt to curb North Korea’s quest for nuclear weapons and advanced missiles. Successive U.S. pres…

What’s almost never mentioned in countless articles on this saga is that most of these so called American publishing houses are wholly foreign owned. If the merger had gone through, at least 4 of the …

For a few, this will be a book one actually wrote, rather than a single book one read. Writing is more powerful an experience than reading, or can be

Here’s one from Wikipedia: In a 1994 interview with The Paris Review, Gottlieb described his need to "surrender" to a book. "The more you have surrendered," he said, "the more…

Editor Extraordinaire? Perhaps, but Remnick does a shit job of making the case. He retells stories too often told, and without doing the work of the writer: to make us see something we could not have …

I think McCarthy believed that telling a story and conventional grammar had no necessary relationship. Whether you like few or none of his novels, recognize that he was brave enough to forfeit fame an…

As this reinforces, discretionary spending tends to go, ironically, in opposite directions: anything that makes you fat and anything that makes you beautiful (or claims to)

42 percent potatoes. So low. Makes me wonder what percentage real ‘potato’ chips have?

So can the concept of mental illness, and already has

Forgive me, another sample: So the President's Science Advisory Committee was formed and studied things. Where do we stand relative to the Russians? What is it they can do with these new technolo…

Another sample: But what was usual was, when the magnet got delivered, I had the crane put it down next to the cyclotron which was going to give us the Pi mesons coming in, and I had designed some air…

Sample: Aaserud: What about theory versus experiment? Did you have any problems with that, or did you do both as easily? I notice on your publication list that they are very interspersed. Garwin: Well…

Very good, thanks

Active links from above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902890 https://figment.substack.com/p/e43612dc-a4f3-4b89-880a-821ad... …

Thanks, will do. The TC novel has some nuclear bomb engineering, but my protagonist takes it to a whole other level, or tries :)

Lazy Sunday in NZ :)

Maybe Netflix would have been smart to lower the price at the same time so as not to stop and catch fire

This post was like any Substack piece I’ve read. Poorly developed and a bit of a rant. Stop whining. Don’t like it, don’t raise its social status by criticizing it.

For the same reason that book publishers pass on huge best-sellers: in a vacuum devoid of packaging and hype, the professionals are as lost as anyone about what’s ‘good’