Boy, college protest season started early – but, found Slate’s Explainer explaining the protests at Gallaudet U to be fascinating. Not entirely up on the issues yet (still reading up), but kind of interesting that, no matter how differently abled they may be, college kids are still the same – the vigors of youth going to action on the issues they find important. Rather inspiring, to say the least.
A Slate article on San Francisco’s architecture. That’s certainly what I had liked about it when we were there – the buildings had character and color. Whether it’s “poor architecture” isn’t for me to say (I’m no expert) – but I had liked seeing the stuff – very different, to say the least (seeing private homes done in pastel – well, it’s different).
Barack Obama’s new book “The Audacity of Hope” is out; NY Times’ Michiko Kakutani gave it a pretty good review – with at least complimenting that he kept the voice he had from his previous book (pre-US Senatorial days – probably that much more an authentic voice) “Dreams From My Father” (which I read and highly recommend). Senator Obama’s the cover story on this week’s Time and an excerpt of the book is inside – which does seem to keep that voice. Whether he’s ready for 2008 – as President? Vice President? – well, there’s still time for that.
Wow – a back story on P.L. Travers, the woman behind Mary Poppins.
And a back story on Dr. Shing-Tung Yau, the mathematician of the Calabi-Yau space in string theory.
And, just a few weeks ago, I was watching Nova Now on PBS, where Dr. Tyson hosted and there was the story on the search for the newest elements on the Periodic Table – and the NY Times reports that maybe the search has succeeded – for about a few fractions of a second. An emphasis on the maybe!
Let’s Go Mets! Got to hang in there!