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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 »
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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 | |
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| My 15 year old g'daughter accelerated through high school and is now taking college courses, her ambition being a neurosurgeon by age 25. Since she was in elementary school I have always read whatever she was reading, and last month that was Seven an ...more | |
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| Circumstances sometimes force us to look more closely at a plant or animal than we would have. We learn more than we would have. In Bailey's case being confined to bed for a long period and a friend just by the by giving her a snail from the forest a ...more | |
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| One could say Christopher "Puffin" Banks is the hero of this novel, but he begins as an interesting boy in pre WWII Shanghai and ends up as a boorish, self-important detective. He thinks he is so important that in the middle of the Japanese invasion ...more | |
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| While Macadams has left wing sympathies and implies that only the right has authoritarian leanings, his explanation of Trump fits like one of Melania's dresses (fits on Melania). So far the only book or any piece of writing I've read that is both fai ...more | |
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“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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