Hong’s Cave

I enjoyed reading it. I can see why some might say he and his book represent “bears”, but I think Robert Shiller is more about rationality and why the public’s perception of a possible infinite growth is just a dream.
I think this second edition came out in 2005, some time before all the talk [...]

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This is the conclusion of the parallel stories of Peter Wiggin and Bean (a.k.a. Julian Delphiki) from Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game.
I didn’t think it was that good. As I said before, Mr. Card’s Hegemon series have this critical problem of making these kids to be so smart that his [...]

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I wanted to try some short scifi short stories, and found this on Amazon.com. It had a pretty good user rating, so I decided to try it.
This is an anthology series from a magazine, “Fantasy and Sicence Fiction”. I never cared too much for the fantasy genre. And maybe that’s the [...]

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[Well, I guess I am not going to work on this for a while... So, I am just going to post my unfinished draft. - Hong.]
o. “Go Your Own Way” by Cool Age [쿨에이지]
First album. They are An JeongHun [안정훈] (guitar, vocal), Jeon HongJun [전홍준] (bass, vocal) and Shin NanDa [신난다] (drums, vocal).
Punk [...]

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An interesting read on globalization although I don’t quite agree with the choice of the word “flat” with “the world” (what he wants to say, probably, is “The hierarchies in the world is getting flatter”).
I did agree with most of what Mr. Friedman said. Indeed, the recent developments and changes in the technologies and [...]

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This was a very interesting book. I have just a passing interest in the modern physics and its attempts to unify the forces and the particles. My last physics book was The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, so I assumed that the String Theory (or various String Theories as it turns out) was [...]

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The contents of the book did not surprised me that much since I’ve been reading books on the history of the Bible. It also summarizes what I have wondered before in not-too-academic ways and backs it up with supporting evidences and theories although mostly by examples.
I’ve heard that Mr. Ehrman is closer to a [...]

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Despite thinking that the book had too much of political/activist sidetracks that dragged out a bit, I thought it was quite informative overall. Michael Pollan follows three different paths that link the source of our food to our dining tables: industrial, organic (both industrial organic and “beyond organic”), and hunting/gathering. It was quite [...]

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[Yeah, yeah, it's about half a year late...]
o. “Frankly” by Voy [보이]
This is their first album. Voy are Lee ByeongHun [이병훈], a.k.a., Vanilla Voy (vocal, piano, acoustic guitar), Lee CheolHui [이철희] (drums) and Lee DongJun [이동준] (bass). Almost all the songs were written by Lee ByeongHun.
Pretty plain old-style acoustic (?) pop. The [...]

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Very, very long and detailed. Too scholastic for me. I think the book is very comprehensive in its scope and details on how the canon of the Bible came to be.
I managed to get through till the end (well, the last few chapters I gleaned over), but I felt like I haven’t even [...]

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