ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2008 | book, history
i'm getting really into this book.
Quoted: Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.
- ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2007 | book, animals, ethics
moral philosophers vs monkeys: round 1 - ding!
Quoted: Moral philosophers do not take very seriously the biologists’ bid to annex their subject
- ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2006 | book
my uncle wrote a children's book.
Quoted: Gary Kramish, 50, is autistic but accomplished. He has a business degree from Durham Technical Community College and a recreation degree from N.C. Central University. He managed a peanut stand and a deli with his father. When Biff died of cancer about three years ago, Kramish lost his best friend.
- ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 06 2006 | book, history
this series is the source of most of my knowledge of history, from the primordial sandwich to buddha's pork overdose to the divine hemorrhoids of the philistines. unfortunately the series currently only goes as far as the 15th century or so, so i'm still very much in the dark about what happened after that. but soon i'll have an advance copy of the newest installment, which goes up to the 1780s!
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