1966/1965 Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert
1970/1969 Novel: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1971/1970 Novel: Ringworld by Larry Niven
1973/1972 Novel: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
1974/1973 Novel: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
1975/1974 Novel: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1976/1975 Novel: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
1978/1977 Novel: Gateway by […]
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I’m generally slow but very accurate on response time tasks (I think too much?). My speed has improved this past term by playing a lot of nertz, a variety of competitive solitaire.
6 tips to make us brighter
I’m at the beach for a week with my family, but we came a day early so that my sister could see my grandmother, Joyce. She has many guests at the beach (Emerald Isle) because she spends a lot of time down here, and one of her guests of a couple years ago was Donald […]
Recently, two articles about the Carleton Robotics Team have appeared in some of my school’s publications. Exciting! One more will be appearing shortly…but I wrote it.
Carleton Website Article
Shout Magazine Article
This morning Jamie and I presented a poster of our project from Cognitive Processes last Spring at the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference. The title of our poster (and linked paper) is Lexical Variety in Human Processing of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences. Our presentation was from 8:45 to 9:45am. For such an early slot, we had a […]
My mom just sent me this. She’s cool, and so is the article. I’ll comment on it later.
In other news, today was the last day of classes this Winter at Carleton! I took an Algorithms II test that had me worried, but I think I did pretty well (although you can never be sure with […]
…which is only supposed to happen when half of the world’s oil resources have been tapped. That spells trouble with a capital t. Check it out:
http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
From the article: “By 2025, we’re going to be back in the Stone Age.”
Just like the FedEx Superbowl commercial.
You are an atheist, a rationalist, a believer in the triumph of science and of reason over libido. You can’t stand mumbo jumbo, ritual, spiritual nonsense of any kind, and you refuse to allow for these longings in others.
Astrologers, Scientologists and new–age crystal ball creeps are no different in your view from priests, rabbis and […]
I just finished Checkmate, the final book in the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. I must say, after quite a few unexpected reversals and twists, it ended quite satisfactorily. I feel like the whole series does provide insight into the period (mid-1500s). The events surrounding the fictional main character are factual, and the plot itself […]
Awesome.