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Dec 31, 2024 · Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem This (with its sequelae The Dark Forest and Death’s End) evokes nostalgia for SF stories of an earlier age, from authors such as Arthur C. Clarke.It starts in 1967 when a young girl, Ye Wiejie, witnesses her father, a physics professor, beaten to death by high-school students during the Cultural Revolution.
05 | January | 2025 | Occam's Typewriter
4 days ago · Last winter seemed to go on for ages. At least, way back at the end of January I remember desperately longing for summer. And then I was made redundant, which hadn’t been on my bingo card for 2024.
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Occam’s Typewriter is a community project to bring together current and erstwhile scientists who like to write. We have all been blogging at various places over the years, independently and on networks.
01 | January | 2025 | Occam's Typewriter
Jan 1, 2025 · Surprising conversations with the Vicar Part IV: 1 The Lord said to me again, ‘Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other …
06 | January | 2025 | Occam's Typewriter
3 days ago · 2025 already! That’s a good opportunity to post my favourite 10 photos from 2024. Some car racing, some equestrian pursuits, and a whole lot of concerts.
08 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 8, 2024 · When I first started writing this blog in 2010, I imagined I was going to write about the science that interested me, the latest papers in my field that caught my eye, and specifically highlight the excitement and challenge of …
2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 30, 2021 · Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …
17 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 17, 2024 · Well, it’s been about a week since the end of Taylor Swift’s monumental Eras Tour. Millions attended, and I’d presume that millions more, like me, never even got half a sniff at a ticket.
Launch | Occam's Typewriter
Nov 26, 2021 · My latest book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth has now come out in the US and Canada. Actually, it came out 17 days ago, and it’s available from St Martin’s Press and the proverbial All Good Bookstores, but I haven’t had a moment to carve a word on this until now.It was pipped at the post by versions in Dutch and German; a Spanish edition is now available for preorder; and of ...
31 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 31, 2024 · With a handful of notable exceptions, my book reading in the past year has not been an altogether happy experience. I worked my way through 18 titles in all, work being the operative verb in many cases.