Author Archives: Roderick

Cordial and Sanguine, Part 56: The Mind Cannot Foresee Its Own Eternal Recurrence, Recurrence the Second

19th
May. × ’13

Re this, it’s a good thing Corey Robin didn’t know that Hayek used to tell people to pronounce his name “hi-yek, as in high-explosive.” Only a short step from there to “I am not a man, I am dynamite.”

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 55: Istanbul Redux

19th
May. × ’13

[cross-posted at BHL] An outline for my upcoming talk in Istanbul.

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10 + 11

19th
May. × ’13

The BBC claims that this clip is a thank-you gift for fans who were mistakenly sent the Doctor Who season finale and didn’t reveal any spoilers. I rather suspect that this clip was already filmed and scheduled to be released pretty soon anyway. In any case, most of the season finale’s plot twists have been [...]

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KSR FTW

19th
May. × ’13

Congratulations to Kim Stanley Robinson, whose novel 2312 – which is set in a libertarian-socialist future of Mondragon cooperatives that is sort-of connected to his Mars books – has just won the Nebula award.

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Words Mean Stuff

17th
May. × ’13

The media keep saying that Ariel Castro held three women “hostage.” If only that were true; then their captivity wouldn’t have been a secret for the past decade.

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Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young

17th
May. × ’13

I just got back from seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness. I’m a bit surprised at some of the lackluster reviews it’s been getting, because I thought it was pretty good. I do have some quarrels with it, but I can’t really go into them without spoilers, so I’ll save that discussion for a later date. [...]

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