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How to Think Like a Neandertal

Caveman Cognition? Authors:  Thomas Wynn and Frederick Coolidge What would it be like to get into the mind of your cat?  What does your dog think about all day?  Humans have spent a lot of time speculating about such seemingly unanswerable questions with less than convincing success.  However, as we approach animals more closely related to us, maybe it becomes easier to be accurate.  It’s really not that hard to tell when a chimpanzee is angry and observers can often deduce why, using nothing more than natural human intuition.  While plenty has been discerned about the social and psychological life [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:45-07:00October 19th, 2012|Tags: |

Mortality

Christopher "Courageous"... Author: Christopher Hitchens What do you do when you know that you probably only have a year or two to live?  If you’re Christopher Hitchens, you just keep writing.  The award winning author, atheist and provocateur was diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer in June 2010 and eventually succumbed in December 2011, but he kept writing the whole time.  Mortality is a compilation of the Vanity Fair columns he wrote about his harrowing journey through the world of cancer. I’ve admired Hitchens’ writing before – on atheism, history and current events – and while this work delves into weightier [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:45-07:00October 17th, 2012|Tags: , , |

Only Time Will Tell

Book 1 of the Clifton Chronicles Reader Beware!  Jeffrey Archer’s Only Time Will Tell is not a stand-alone book; it’s the first in a series.  The second book, Sins of the Father, has already been published, but there are rumors of the series eventually including up to five installments.  Why do I tell you this before anything else?  So that you, unlike I, will not get to the end of the book – having felt the impending doom for at least 50 pages – and wail “NOOOOOOOOO!” as you realize that the answer to the major mystery will not be [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:46-07:00October 16th, 2012|Tags: |
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