Weather by Jenny Offill “Voted, that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof;voted,that the earth is given to the Saints; voted that we are the Saints.” Weather, a novel by Jenny Offill, opens with the above quotation from a 1640 Connecticut town meeting. If indeed Earth “belongs” to us, are we compelled to protect (or salvage) our planet? This novel answers with a
First of all, several questions: 1. What is a utopian novel? 2. What is a dystopian novel? 3. What is AI? The answers: A science fiction or other form of speculative fiction that portrays a pleasant reality. A science fiction or other form of speculative fiction that portrays an unpleasant reality. Artificial intelligence or intelligence manufactured by a machine that is programmed to think and
REGISTER Author and historian Walter Isaacson is known for his biographies on the world’s greatest thinkers and innovators. Now, he focuses on history in the making with the story of biochemist Jennifer Doudna, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, who jointly received the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR, which is based on a virus-fighting trick used by bacteria
(timely little post from Linda Malcolm–) The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett As she nears her 90th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II is enjoying some time at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles has arranged a “dine and sleep” for a few dozen friends, complete with entertainment by a handsome Russian pianist (who also dances a mean tango.) By morning, however, the young pianist is dead and
Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with her assistant Emmanuelle Charpentier, and their work helped lay the groundwork for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Just remember that, if your daughters or granddaughters aspire to be chemists. Doudna’s high school counselor told her that girls do not become chemists. Not an awful lot of girls become chemists, true,
Anyone who lived in Atlanta in the 50’s and 60’s was very familiar with Memorial Drive. During those decades, Atlanta was still a city, barely on the cusp of becoming the metropolis it is today, and people were familiar with the many neighborhoods spiraling outward from the gold-plated Capitol dome. Memorial Drive was a vital east-west corridor linking East Lake, Kirkwood, Edgewood, Grant Park, Cabbagetown,
BOOK 1 Bill Gates has been promoting his newest book entitled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. You may have seen his appearance on “60 Minutes”, which aired February 14, 2020. On the TV program and in the book, Gates claims that the world needs to get to zero carbon emmissions by 2050 in order to avoid a climate disaster. To accomplish this goal, Gates
PBS provided a great deal of hype for it’s new adaptation of James Herriot’s books about his time as a veternarian in the Yorkshire countryside. Some viewers, however, do not appreciate the new version of All Creatures Great and Small. Have you watched the series? Did you read the books? What do you think? James Herriott, whose actual name was James Alfred Wight, was a
Sea Marsh Book Club books for 2021: Meeting Date Book Author Host Monday, November 16, 2020 Another Brooklyn Jennifer Woodson Lois Monday, December 14, 2020 Such A Fun Age Kiley Reid Laura Monday, January 18, 2021 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett Judy Monday, February 22, 2021 Pope Joan: A Novel Donna Woolfolk Cross Marti/Madeleine Monday, March 15, 2021 A Woman of No Importance Sonia Purnell
