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Wallace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Wallace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Wallace Kaufman
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Partial Brain Transplant
Former Vice President Joe Biden famously had hair transplant plugs, but suppose we could give politicians brain plug transplants?
We've done it with rats, so why not politicians? Apologies for the cynicism (some of my best friends are politicians), but in fact, scientists have transplanted human brain cells into rats.
The human brain cells were developed from stem cells as lentil sized neurons. Rece Read more of this blog post »
We've done it with rats, so why not politicians? Apologies for the cynicism (some of my best friends are politicians), but in fact, scientists have transplanted human brain cells into rats.
The human brain cells were developed from stem cells as lentil sized neurons. Rece Read more of this blog post »
Wallace’s Recent Updates
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Jan Rice's review
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine:
"Right on the cover flap, the publisher's blurb say that Israel responded to Oct. 7 (2023) with a "war of destruction."
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"A beautiful, thoughtful and fascinating book.
And I’m relieved to hear that I am not the only one who has wondered where birds bodies go after they die!" |
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Rachel Simomons's review
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Grow Old and Die Young: A Naturalist in Life's Theater:
"The chapters are short, which I loved. I could read one before bed and just sit with it. The bit about the gray jays eating from his hand made me smile for days. And the part about his friend Josh who died at sea wrecked me."
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Grow Old and Die Young: A Naturalist in Life's Theater:
"If you liked Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Walden, you'll love this. But Kaufman is less preachy than Thoreau and more honest about the loneliness. He doesn't pretend to have answers. He just watches the marsh and tells you what he sees. Really refreshi"
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| This is not analysis. This is not scholarship. This is not much about geopolitical issues though they are here. This is biased, but its purpose is experience. Story after story, person after person, event after event put readers vividly in situations ...more | |
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Sara’s review
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On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
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| Gritting my teeth, I note that this moralistic and simplistic novel was chosen by the Oxford Book Club on line for discussion. It takes place during the height of British empire, an "evil empire" of "colonial exploitation" of course. A near monopoly ...more | |
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| Neuroscience is now big in the book world just as once the big subjects were arctic narratives, pop psychology, eastern mystics (Gibran, Rumi, Zen Buddhists, and so on), Civil War histories, sci-fi, magical reality or surrealism (Gabriel Marquez, Bor ...more | |
“Kaufman’s law of society and the natural environment: Concern and care for the natural environment grows in proportion to a community’s (nation’s) affluence.
Kaufman’s law of population growth: A nation’s birth rate and population growth will decline as its affluence ascends.
Kaufman’s First Law of Human Powers: No enhancement of human powers can be successfully prohibited.
Kaufman’s Second Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will be developed to its maximum economic and political utility.
Kaufman’s Third Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will have both negative and positive potential for a large part of humanity; which potential becomes most important depends on political systems and ideology.”
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Kaufman’s law of population growth: A nation’s birth rate and population growth will decline as its affluence ascends.
Kaufman’s First Law of Human Powers: No enhancement of human powers can be successfully prohibited.
Kaufman’s Second Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will be developed to its maximum economic and political utility.
Kaufman’s Third Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will have both negative and positive potential for a large part of humanity; which potential becomes most important depends on political systems and ideology.”
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“I don't think we can name a single poor nation where population control programs have worked. I don't think we can name a single affluent country that has not reduced population growth, often below ZPG.”
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“One of the marvels of human psychology is that the people who are thoroughly pessimistic about humankind want to solve our problems by trusting their solution to a very small number of small minds.”
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“I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“At the end of an interview for her first post-PhD job Tessa abandons the politically correct answers and says, "The doctrine of equity sounds good--and maybe the hearts of some of those who profess it are in the right place. But in reality, it's immoral, unfair, harmful to academic standards, and deeply paternalistic. So in response to your question, Dr. Franco, I do not promote equity in the classroom. I promote education instead.”
― The Adamant I: An Anti-University University Novel
― The Adamant I: An Anti-University University Novel
“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”
― Any Number Can Play
― Any Number Can Play
“Kaufman’s law of society and the natural environment: Concern and care for the natural environment grows in proportion to a community’s (nation’s) affluence.
Kaufman’s law of population growth: A nation’s birth rate and population growth will decline as its affluence ascends.
Kaufman’s First Law of Human Powers: No enhancement of human powers can be successfully prohibited.
Kaufman’s Second Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will be developed to its maximum economic and political utility.
Kaufman’s Third Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will have both negative and positive potential for a large part of humanity; which potential becomes most important depends on political systems and ideology.”
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Kaufman’s law of population growth: A nation’s birth rate and population growth will decline as its affluence ascends.
Kaufman’s First Law of Human Powers: No enhancement of human powers can be successfully prohibited.
Kaufman’s Second Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will be developed to its maximum economic and political utility.
Kaufman’s Third Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will have both negative and positive potential for a large part of humanity; which potential becomes most important depends on political systems and ideology.”
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“One of the marvels of human psychology is that the people who are thoroughly pessimistic about humankind want to solve our problems by trusting their solution to a very small number of small minds.”
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