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Learning to eat
Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is the action-item, CliffsNotes version of his In Defense of Food. A very quick read, it contains 64 rules of thumbs for eating more healthily. These rules emerged from his own research as … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, food, Food Rules, Michael Pollan, mindfulness, Sustainability
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An inside look at Islam
While spending a few weeks in the Middle East, I read the book Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. I found the book to be very informative, as it outlines the main doctrinal beliefs and history of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Social issues
Tagged book, brotherhood, extremists, Islam, modernity, Muslim, Nasr, religion
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Looking back on a marriage
Music I heard with you was more than music / And bread I broke with you was more than bread Thus did Hugh Franklin propose to Madeleine L’Engle, beginning the union chronicled in Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, … Continue reading
Short Story Delight
Sometimes I get so caught up on things I have to do or want to do that I forget to read. When I do read, I seem to be turning more to non-fiction than anything else (who would have guessed?), … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Miller, book, fiction, library, Michael Chabon, non-fiction, short story
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The Drunkard’s Walk
We’ve been discussing more and more in my office the idea that secondary education ought to require a course in probability and statistics more urgently than a course in calculus. Yes, calculus is fascinating and elegant, a true achievement of … Continue reading
