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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
Posted in Books, Lifestyle
Tagged Arthur Miller, book, fiction, library, Michael Chabon, non-fiction, short story
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The Power of Now
One of my pursuits these days is the cultivation of mindfulness. Life is rich and helter-skelter. Only by living in each fleeting now, it seems, is there hope of appreciating a journey that is already accelerating to its eventual conclusion. … Continue reading
Why Choose This Book?
Starting from Darwin and Turing, Read Montague’s Why Choose This Book? relates recent research on how minds make decisions. The critical element is a valuation mechanism that can assign weights to various alternatives, and do so cheaply. Why, indeed, does … Continue reading
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Tagged book, brain, computation, decision, efficiency, Why Choose This Book?
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