Digested readers
First and most appropriate, Adam at Sophistipundit reviews Who Let the Blogs Out, an interesting look at blogging and the wherefores. Adam also brings us “The Skeptical environmentalist” by Bjorn Lomborg, which I found quite interesting myself. Early Riser counsels us to First: break all the rules
Deputyheadmistress’ daughter “The head Girl” at the Common Room brings us ‘The twenty four days before christmas’ and ‘seeing salvation’ in her post “Two different, but marvelous books” both of which look like excellent reads.
Following the religious theme, A Random Yak at Random Yak (Love the blog name, btw) reviews the brief and tasty autobiography of C.S. Lewis, “Jack’s Life” If you’re a lewis fan, you should read this.
At Multiple Mentality, Josh Cohen reviews (among other books) “The Big U”. The line that got me was
“Casimir Radon, a junior in his late twenties, just wants to engage in intellectual pursuits. He is a physics geek (sometimes genius), and his ultimate hopes are to build a mass driver (railgun), avenge his cat, and get it on with Sarah.”
It’s on my reading list now.
That’s the ones for December. There are other older ones. Anyone else who wants to host this, please drop a line to Digestedreaders@gmail.com
Wow, rail gun.
I just learned about those puppies a couple of months ago. Purely fascinating. Their ability and mostly their power are so incredible it’s almost impossible to fathom what it would be like to witness a firing of a set of rail guns. I guess ships are so gargantuan that rolling one with the recoil isn’t a worry, still, that’s a lot of kickback. I don’t know how they’re going to design housing to handle sustained firing without the thing smithereening all over the ship. I know they got it figured out, but I’m just stumped. I’m like the island native looking at an airplane and scratching his head over how the heck does that happen. A bullet flying at mach 7 to mach 16, how does it not disintegrate just from its own force?
Poor Wretchard covered it some at http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/07/return-of-dreadnought-nearly-hundred.html
Nice job- small correction. I write most of the posts at our family blog, The Common Room, but this one was by my daughter, The HEad Girl. I think the mistake is probably mine, so my apologies.
Handled. Probably due to my stupidity. Thanks!
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