If I were ever teaching a geometry class, I would not go to McDougal-Little or Pearson or the other big-name textbook publishers, but would instead direct my students to obtain a copy of Euclid’s Elements, and build my curriculum around it.
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Post Post-Scarcity
The answer to our human ills does not lie with limitless energy or a post-scarcity society. If anywhere, it lies within us.
Luther the Reformer Review
After purporting to tell the story of “the man and his career,” Kittelson instead provides a dry, biased history that barely even scratches the surface of the complexity of Luther and his times.
Patterns and Poetry in Prose
With poetry remaining, for now, something of a mystery, I've turned my attention towards instead applying certain poetically derived techniques to my prose.
Grant Review
Grant lived up to my exospheric expectations for a Chernow biography in spectacular fashion, and my biggest challenge reading it was not inhaling it in three-hundred-page binges.
The Arch, the Centering, and the Keystone Release and Author’s Note
The Arch, the Center, and the Keystone is fairly different from most of what I write, befitting an experiment.
Relativity Review
Many misunderstandings exist surrounding the theories of relativity, and after you read Relativity, you might wonder why - Einstein renders the special theory’s claims and precepts so self-evident.
Showing the Word Budget
I think of word limits as budgets. I have some number of words with which to tell my story, and I cannot spend more than that number.
Mastering Bread Review
In my mind, cookbooks were just binders of recipes you keep on a greasy shelf somewhere that may or may not be close to the kitchen, from which you might have one or two go-to recipes you follow for nostalgia’s sake, and otherwise they serve little useful purpose. That is, until I received a copy of Mastering Bread as a gift.
What is Time?
It is first necessary to establish what, precisely, is being asked by that question, since most casual answers are actually responding to the perceived question ‘how is time measured,’ and not to the actual question ‘what is time’.
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