Maybe it’s because I live alone, but I spend a good deal of time arguing with my reading material, especially those essays or books that are nonfiction. My complaints aren’t content to be voiced in my head but are expressed out loud, as if the author were perched in the armchair a

A friend recommended a new science book to me, The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll. I’m 50 pages in to it, but I’m so excited about what I’ve learned so far that I have to share. Unlike Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist?, which I’ve touched upon

I am still inching my way through Jim Holt’s, Why does the World Exist?  I’ll probably finish it in the same time frame it took to build a pyramid. The book is so rich in thought that it’s like wading through a vat of molasses. The concepts it teaches are stranger than any foun

I received a package in the mail yesterday. I wasn’t expecting anything, so I put my ear to it to listen for ticking sounds. Hearing none, I tore the wrapping and discovered a friend had sent me a book I’d wanted to read for some time: Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt. Holt w