Thirteen days into the Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the blogs have sprung to life with daily accounts of writers walking the lines in Los Angeles. Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin have running accounts of what it’s like out there in the first full-scale WGA strike since 1988. According to the Los Angeles Times, negotiations […]
Fiction
Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (Winner!)
Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories, by Lydia Davis
Then We Came To The End, by Josua Ferris
Like You’d Understand Anway, by Jim Shepard
Nonfiction
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,, by Tim Weiner (Winner!)
Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everyting, by Christopher […]
The 10 Best Books of 2007 - New York Times.
100 Notable Books of 2007 - New York Times.
For decades, we’ve known, through the work of Benjamin Libet and others, that neuronal activity to initiate neuromuscular activity precedes conscious thought. Now scientists are attempting to harness those brain signals and put them to work. In the Brain2Robot project, an international team of researchers has developed a robot control system that works […]
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