He is chair of Energy and Environmental Systems at Singularity University.Ġ:00:00 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape podcast, I'm your host, Sean Carroll. His science-fiction trilogy Nexus was awarded several prizes. He founded Apex Technologies, which develops software for use in molecular design. Ramez Naam worked for 13 years at Microsoft, helping to develop early versions of Outlook, Explorer, and Bing. And maybe we sneak in a little discussion of brain-computer interfaces, a theme of the Nexus trilogy. We talk about the present state of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, and what our current rate of progress bodes for the near and farther future. He is a technologist, entrepreneur, and science-fiction author, who has been following advances in renewable energy. Dare we imagine that we can bring our self-inflicted climate catastrophe under control, through a combination of technological advances and political willpower? Ramez Naam is optimistic, at least about the technological advances. But human beings are not always complete idiots (occasional contrary evidence notwithstanding), and sometimes we can even be downright clever. The Earth is heating up, and it's our fault.
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Sometimes his wife is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. He is the creator of the characters Danika and Mila Dubov, who appear in the new Netflix series V-WARS, and is also is the author of four collections of short horror fiction, including his latest, SACRIFICING VIRGINS. Other novels include the Fountain of Youth erotic thriller THE FAMILY TREE, the Rosemary's Baby-esque DEVIL'S EQUINOX, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated erotic horror tour de force NIGHTWHERE, the Bram Stoker Award-winner COVENANT, its sequel SACRIFICE and the standalone novels THE 13TH, SIREN, THE PUMPKIN MAN, and VIOLET EYES. John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 12 novels of horror and the macabre, including his latest release, the New Orleans black magic thriller VOODOO HEART, the Bachelors Grove Cemetery-inspired THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, and REDEMPTION, the conclusion to his demonic Curburide Chronicles trilogy. “Volume I” starts this extraordinary journey in giving access to another dimension. Many poignant discussions, on appropriate-sexual-behavior-re-social-implication secrets as evoked, follow contributing to opening more channels. Undesirable ethereal revelations, surface. In “Ethereal Revelations - Vol I: Access to Another Dimension” the cost is prepaid via a traumatizing infidelity incident with devastating protracted aftermath, causing a bizarre soul position that makes susceptibility to peculiar spiritual occurrences possible. By starting to see the heavenly results of sex, set off the ability to see-a privilege with a cost-the entire spiritual realm, as contained in forthcoming volumes. “Ethereal Revelations - Volume I” is a moving account of how Lizelle, at the end of pregnancy, discovered another side to sex: a spiritual side. Download Ethereal Revelations Volume I Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle The novel closes with Mary’s perspective. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice, do you think it is a feminist novel? Isĩ. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.” Do you agree or disagree with this sentiment?Ĩ. 305, Kathy de Bourgh tells Liz, “There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you-that both are inher- ently unfeminist. What do you think the novel has to say about reality TV? Would you go on a show like Eligible?ħ. The title Eligible comes from the fictional reality television show Chip Bingley appears on. Bennet’s concern over her daughters’ remaining unmarried into their late thirties is common, or is this an outdated perspective?Ħ. To what extent do you think the portrayal of modern courtship and mar- riage in this novel is realistic? Do you think Mrs. What prejudices does Curtis Sittenfeld explore in this adaptation? How do they differ from the prejudices of Austen’s time?ĥ. Were you surprised by Darcy and Liz having “hate sex”? Did it make the novel more or less enjoyable for you?Ĥ. Which of the sisters do you most identify with, and why? Did that change at all over the course of the novel?ģ. Why is this story such a timeless favorite?Ģ. Eligible is a modern adaptation of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. "Her best yet.A dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final breathtaking twist."-Pam Jenoff, N ew York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleĪnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Mystery, murder, mistaken identity, romance-Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning tapestry."-Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz "Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson Petal and the White. From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. Unable to decide what she believed, bookworm Peri searched for a path between belief and disbelief. She spent an unhappy childhood caught in the cross hairs between her protective, devout mother and her heavy-drinking but adored secularist father, an Atatürk devotee. As course after course is served in the ostentatiously beautiful home, Peri observes her well-heeled fellow guests while she reconsiders her past. That photograph continues to tug at her memories when she eventually arrives at the dinner party, a party that may remind film aficionados of Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel. As Peri successfully fights off her attacker (possibly with help from a guardian angel), an old photograph falls from her purse, a forgotten Polaroid of Peri standing with three others at Oxford. In 2016 Istanbul, 35-year-old Peri is en route with her surly 12-year-old daughter to a dinner party when a beggar tries to rob her. Through the story of a cosmopolitan, upper-middle-class Turkish woman coming to terms with her life, Shafak ( The Architect’s Apprentice, 2015, etc.) meshes many of the themes she has explored separately in her previous novels: Turkish politics, spiritualism, and the uneasy relationship between East and West. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech," his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. But this extraordinary document has never been made public-until now.īy carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter-filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the worldĮach day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced. These three extraordinary women passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning-from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America’s most pivotal heroes.īerdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s son Martin Luther, and Louise Little’s son Malcolm. Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy’s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.Īll because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. He just doesn’t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn’t have it. But it isn’t until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. It begins when Hank’s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed. It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock.”- Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice) “Freakshow.” Lionel’s moniker denotes the Tourette’s syndrome that twists his speech into weird aslant approximations (his own name, for example, is apt to come out “Larval Pushbug” or “Unreliable Chessgrub”) and induces a tendency to compulsive behavior (“reaching, tapping, grabbing and kissing urges”) that makes him useful putty in the hands of Frank Minna, an enterprising hood who recruits teenagers (like Lionel) from St. Lethem’s delirious yarn about crime, pursuit, and punishment, is narrated in a unique voice by its embattled protagonist, Brooklynite (and orphan) Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. A brilliantly imagined riff on the classic detective tale: the fifth high-energy novel in five years from the rapidly maturing prodigy whose bizarre black-comic fiction includes, most recently, Girl in Landscape (1998). |