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My Best Reads of 2009

Foolish Sage | December 7, 2009

In no particular order, here is my list of the best books I read during this past year
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything – David Dark
Definitely the one book with the most profound effect on me this year. Dark says not only is it not damaging to a life of faith to question everything, it is [...]

Power in the Balance

Foolish Sage | November 30, 2009

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Barabara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Gödel, Escher, Bach Virtual Class Forming

Foolish Sage | August 22, 2009

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Breaking my blogging hiatus here to pass on word about a virtual class my wife has set up. We’ll be reading through and discussing Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid using M.I.T.’s Open Courseware. Here’s the course description:
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise [...]

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