Men Who Hate Women
The original.. at least in France… I am still doing my morning runs (up to 6 miles today), and I am still listening to the books on tape version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson....
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Modern art – Bathers by a river by Henri Matisse 1910 Yesterday we went to see the new Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. (As we live on top of the museum, this was not...
Read moreWhy BP Is In So Much Trouble – Mediawise, at least
oops…. The Chairman of BP, Carl Henrik Svanberg announced that BP CEO Tony Hayward would be removed from his contact with the press, pretty much, following a series of gaffs over the Gulf oil leak. To the average TV...
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Books that re-wire your brain In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Nick Kristof ran a piece, “The Boys Have Fallen Behind“. The focus of Krisofs’ piece was that across the boards, with the exception of math, there is an...
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Whose side are you on? My old friend, the late Dr. Leonard Shlain was both a highly accomplished surgeon and an author. He wrote a book that had a lasting influence on my life , The Alphabet vs. The...
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I’m voting you off the planet…. In 1969 the first man walked on the moon. In 1972, the last man walked on the moon, and we have not been back since. That’s 36 years. For 36 years the moon...
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Dr. Leonard Shlain – Surgeon, Author, Raconteur. Yesterday I got an interesting response, reprinted below, from Stephen Press, a cameraman who lives New Zealand.
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