What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend?
November 24, 2000 2:01 PM Subscribe
What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend? He seems to be deliberately holding the book so it can be observed, but I don't recognize the cover and can't make out the title. Anybody?
It's Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku.
posted by rcade at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by rcade at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000
(I can't believe I just did a squinted at that long enough to make out his name and do search for "Michio" and find the "official" site. I should just go home.)
posted by cCranium at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by cCranium at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000
Yeah, but I spent an extra minute doing a geeky Amazon search so I could answer definitively.
posted by rcade at 2:12 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by rcade at 2:12 PM on November 24, 2000
I am surprised, considering the criticism over the Cassini mission that Kaku was ringleading.
posted by norm at 3:33 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by norm at 3:33 PM on November 24, 2000
Really? You can't think science is important without buying into everything scientists want?
posted by rodii at 3:38 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by rodii at 3:38 PM on November 24, 2000
>I can't believe I just did a squinted at that long enough
>to make out his name and do search for "Michio" and
>find the "official" site. I should just go home.)
That's the best part (and the part which no one really acknowledges in their anti-weblog screeds) of publishing a weblog: researching topics of which you may have limited knowledge. Over the past two and a half years of publishing kottke.org, I've learned more than I probably did in the same amount of time in college...and by posting what I've found, I share my discoveries with others. I live for the squint-search-post.
posted by jkottke at 4:05 PM on November 24, 2000
>to make out his name and do search for "Michio" and
>find the "official" site. I should just go home.)
That's the best part (and the part which no one really acknowledges in their anti-weblog screeds) of publishing a weblog: researching topics of which you may have limited knowledge. Over the past two and a half years of publishing kottke.org, I've learned more than I probably did in the same amount of time in college...and by posting what I've found, I share my discoveries with others. I live for the squint-search-post.
posted by jkottke at 4:05 PM on November 24, 2000
After eight years at Oxford, I can only second that: you learn in spite of the curriculum, not because of it. Which is why I love the extended serendipity of the web.
posted by holgate at 4:29 PM on November 24, 2000
posted by holgate at 4:29 PM on November 24, 2000
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Maybe he's looking for somewhere to go?
posted by cCranium at 2:08 PM on November 24, 2000