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Collected copies of my recent Amazon book reviews

Introductory page for my book G.O.D. Is Great

Stub for a notes page for my book G.O.D. Is Great

Introductory page for my 2009 Globorg book plan

List of my main publications since 1991, mostly with PDF downloads

Photos taken during a pleasant walk in Schwetzingen Schlossgarten

Photos taken during a pleasant walk in the springtime sunshine

A page of photos taken in or near Schwetzingen Schloßgarten

Introductory page for my draft book Godblogs

Brief history of the facts of my life, presented as a mini-autobiography

Introductory page for my philosophy book Mindworlds

Group photo of old Exonians who dined together in Zurich in 2008

17 photos of me taken in November 2007, 5 taken in January 2008

Outline for a speculative book on life, the universe and everything

Some aircraft at Yeovilton Air Day, July 8, 2006

Montreux, Switzerland, where I was on a business trip in May 2006

Extended review of books by Penrose and Wolfram published in JCS

Zurich, on the occasion of an old boys reunion, June 24, 2005

Me at Exeter College Oxford in June 28, 2003, and October 1969

Captain Pom vs the Grumians, text for a fun cartoon strip I wrote in 1999

Introductory page for my 1996 science-fiction novel Lifeball

 

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Physics
 

The LHC could find not only the Higgs but also evidence for supersymmetry

A biography of Paul Dirac and a new account of the Pauli-Jung correspondence

Two recent experiments confirm that quantum entanglement is real

Tim Palmer uses fractal geometry for phase space to tackle quantum puzzles

David Albert sees a threat to special relativity from quantum nonlocality

A gravity-wave detector may have detected the quantum jitters of spacetime

A new catalyst is discovered for turning sunlight and water into hydrogen

John Updike, George Johnson, and John Derbyshire on aspects of Einstein

Do black holes destroy information or not? Leonard Susskind reports

The Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva

Three physicists show how to reconstruct the universe from tiny triangles

Marcus de Sautoy on symmetry and the work of Thompson and Tits

NASA has found a practical way to build large telescopes on the moon

NASA finds more planets, news of the Kepler and James Webb telescopes

A. Garrett Lisi's "exceptionally simple theory of everything" based on E8

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Hugh Everett III and his relative state theory of quantum mechanics

Itzhak Bars has a new two-dimensional theory of time

Michael J. Disney's doubts about contemporary cosmology

Quantum theorist David Deutsch reviews Douglas Hofstadter's new book

QED pioneer Freeman Dyson ponders our biotech future

Lee Smolin reviews several recent books about Einstein

Christopher Isham and Andreas Döring present a topos foundation for physics

My review of a Springer book on the foundations of quantum mechanics

My reviews of two physics books in the Springer Frontiers Collection

My brief outline of a textbook by Barton Zwiebach on string theory

 

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Other Sciences
 

Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini have written an unfortunate book about evolution

By all accounts the Singularity Summit 2009 in New York was a big success

Don't laugh: Ray Kurzweil thinks he has a shot at living forever

Economics is not a natural science, says Douglas Rushkoff

Geo-engineering can halt global warming quickly and cheaply, but with risks

Evolutionary biology is waking up to group, species, and ecosystem selection

Our understanding of the human genome has advanced rapidly in recent years

Supercomputer performance has just passed the petaflops milestone

 

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Social and Political Studies
 

Robert Wright contemplates the emerging global superorganism

A panoply of luminaries present their visions for the year 2020

John Rawls published an influential theory of justice in 1971

Philip Tetlock reviews three books that offer geopolitical prophecy

The next few decades may herald the emergence of the Nöosphere

Sigmund Freud critiques civilization and John Armstrong defends it

Alain de Botton writes a bad book on work and Andrew Ross writes a good one

Life in office cubicles is not good for the human spirit: a philosophical protest

The European policy of tolerating immigrant cultural differences has backfired

Fareed Zakaria analyzes global trends regarding Islam and American power

The financial crisis has exacerbated the accelerating ruin of US higher education

Robert Solow highlights the role of leverage in causing the financial crisis

Former IMF chief economist offers crisis advice to the US government

Roger Scruton ponders the sacred and the human, forgiveness and irony

The British character has changed in recent decades, says Theodore Dalrymple

Paul Krugman recommends Keynesian action to stave off global depression

The US National Intelligence Council issues its report Global Trends 2025

George Soros explains the financial crisis with his new theory

Chris Hitchens laments Sarah Palin's ignorance of science

The American love-hate relationship with biker outlaws on chopped hogs

Quentin Skinner tries to explain Thomas Hobbes on republican liberty

The classical Greek virtues may be unfashionable but they are real

Neoconservative guru Leo Strauss and his philosophy and background

Edward Luttwak argues that Bush 43 will soon seem as successful as Truman

Steve Stein tries to balance climate greenery and U.S. oil independence

Peter Thiel sees market implications in the risk of apocalypse

Roger Sandall on religion and violence

John Gray on apocalyptic religion and on environmentalism

Review of books by Mandelbaum and Reich on capitalism and democracy

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his Mormon background

Global warming: how good is the evidence and what does it show?

Caleb Crain contemplates the decline of book culture

Richard Jenkyns and Jonathan Sacks ask whether we need a literary canon

A report on the world in 2030 and an account of Google in the cloud

Walter Russell Mead on Jews and Wasps

Robert Putnam considers diversity in America

Chalmers Johnson's apocalyptic trilogy on the American republic

Oil was the most convincing reason for starting the Iraq war

Ayn Rand was a key figure for many, including Alan Greenspan

Al Gore and his new book on reason and the environment

Norman Podhoretz makes the case for bombing Iran

Recalling Oswald Spengler on the decline of the West

A book by Sheri Berman as recommended reading for Gordon Brown

Wendy Shalit on the new phenomenon of girls gone wild

My unimpressed reaction to Jimmy Carter's book on the Palestinians

Mark Steyn on the imminent end of civilization as we have known it

Tony Blair on Middle East policy, Los Angeles, August 2006

 

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Business Life
 

The IBM Watson system will soon be competing in the TV quiz show Jeopardy

Amazon and Apple are spearheading a digital publishing revolution

HPI researchers have developed an imaginary interface for mobile devices

Goldman Sachs is a great vampire squid that profited from five big bubbles

Google may be about to monopolize access to all printed information

A vast deposit of black shale can provide natural gas for decades

Robot engineer Edward Boyden says the Singularity could be a fixed point

Bloggers are causing the biggest news revolution since printed newspapers

SAP CTO Vishal Sikka has deep views on the future of enterprise applications

IEEE Spectrum Special Report on the Singularity

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is the king of high-tech patents

The cloud and the grid, Google and CERN, the future of online life

Shai Agassi plans to deploy fleets of electric cars in Israel and Denmark

Sunseeker yachts are expensive and exclusive, and built in Poole

World-Wise Web: the semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee, Wikipedia, mashups

The new Aerion supersonic carbon bigfoot will thrill some businessmen

SAP is making a big push to embrace small and mid-sized enterprises

SAP in India and an essay on the Indian middle class

Photos of me representing SAP at an IBM workshop in Frankfurt

SAP Developer Network blog I wrote on natural language frontends

Group photo of my SAP NetWeaver TREX team in September 2006

SAP Labs SVP Ike Nassi on programming languages and computing

Abstract of a paper I coauthored on data mining with my team's engine

Photos of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR, Sheffield, July 25-29, 2004

Photos of me at the SAP DKOM, SAP University, October 27-28, 2004

Photos of me and colleagues on a visit to SAP Labs, Atlanta, Georgia

 

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Islam and Islamism
 

Americans inherited Islamist agents from the Nazis and now regret it

A formerly well regarded U.S. imam is now in Yemen preaching jihad

Egypt and the Arabs: a scholarly overview of the state of play

Two books by Muslim women suggest that Sharia is an intolerable system

Pankaj Mishra writes about Islam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and writing

Tariq Ramadan is disturbed by the Swiss refusal to accept more minarets

A new book on Islam in Europe claims that a revolution has occurred

On the censorship of a novel about the young wife of the prophet Mohamed

Two al Qaeda founding figures, Dr. Fadl and Dr. Zawahiri, disagree

Selection of 2008 press stories about Islam that provoked my ire

Nine new books on Jihadist fundamentalism help us analyze its dynamic

Stanley Kurtz reviews a book by Philip Carl Salzman on Arab tribalism

Geert Wilders is under pressure to suppress his new movie about Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a book by Lee Harris plus article by Lee Harris on jihad

Intriguing review of an apparently misjudged book about Islamic Spain

Reviews of Edward Said, Western Orientalists, and Ibn Warraq on Islam

Moez Masoud is a Muslim televangelist who offers a hint of hope for us all

James Pinkerton on Samuel Huntingdon on Christendom and Islam

Achievements and limitations of the historic Islamic pursuit of science

Ian Buruma attempts to make the liberal case for tolerating Islamism

Summary of authoritative lecture by Bernard Lewis on Islam

Richard Wolin on the problem of tolerating intolerant Muslims in Europe

Two critical reviews of a nasty book by Dinesh D'Souza on 9/11

 

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Arts and Letters
 

Sven Birkerts laments the difficulty of reading novels in the web age

The Pregnant Widow is the latest novel by Martin Amis

Gertrude Himmelfarb writes on how George Eliot wrote Daniel Deronda

Robert McCrum interviews young British novelist Sarah Waters

Robert McCrum reports how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four

Martin Amis says men are terrible but they just can't help it

Adam Kirsch reviews Europe via novels by Sebald, Houellebecq, and McEwan

Illustrated souvenir page on Amis, Fenton, Hitchens, McEwan, and Rushdie

Algis Budrys was an SF writer who wrote about deep human themes

Ian McEwan looks at the role of religious revelation in recent history

Martha Nussbaum reviews some philosophers' books on Shakespeare

Will Self has written a good body of literature including The Book of Dave

Reviews of Martin Amis' collection of writings on 9/11 and its aftermath

My cuts of reviews of Shalom Auslander's memoir of growing up as a Jew

My illustrated cut of Colin McGinn's review of Oliver Sacks on music

Illustrated celebration of Ian McEwan's novel about Dunkirk and the movie

Reminiscence by David Lodge of Malcolm Bradbury's famous television drama

Collection of press responses to Martin Amis' pronouncements on Islamism

Reviews of Martin Amis' fanciful novel about life in the Soviet gulags

Short cuts of some reviews of Tina Brown's book on Princess Diana

Review of Ian McEwan's uncomfortable novella about British honeymooners

My abbreviation of Martin Amis' review of a novel by Ed Hussain

Roger Sandall reflecting on the sexualization of everyday life

Page about Philip Pullman's trilogy for children and the resulting movie

My abridgement of Martin Amis' essay on "horrorism" (Islamist terrorism)

 

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Military and Security
 

General McChrystal used Afghanistan as a laboratory for counterinsurgency

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs more political work to succeed

The British military presence in Yemen ended in the port of Aden in 1967

The National Security Agency is collecting and analyzing huge masses of data

James Kurth considers how the United States can exert power in the 21st century

Michael Howard reviews two new books on Winston Churchill as warlord

British defence news from operations to procurement to strategy

Anti-missile systems like Aegis, Patriot, and Iron Dome are maturing fast

Robot war machines are evolving fast and already perform numerous roles

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reviews national defense strategy

Michael Eisenstadt asserts that Barack Obama will be a wartime president

Conflict in Georgia: news and analysis from the global press

Terrorist and weapons of mass destruction will converge one day

Oil hits $130, Iran has oil and gas, the U.S. or Israel may attack Iran

Counterinsurgency: the challenge for the U.S. Army

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to be reviewed by the Pentagon

New York Review essay on the nuclear arms race and the Pakistan bomb

Illustrated celebration of the 60th birthday of the United States Air Force

Illustrated cut of an essay advocating U.S. resolution on the  Iraq war

Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on U.S. foreign policy and Islam

My cut of an essay by Robert Kaplan on the U.S. will to win against terror

Illustrated discussion of military robots and their role in warfighting

Critical review of General Petraeus' counter-insurgency policy in Iraq

Christopher Hitchens reports on the death of a model American soldier

James Kurth on U.S. foreign policy in an age of limited manpower

Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on post-cold-war U.S. foreign policy

 

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History
 

From start to finish, the Third Reich was destined for disaster

Hitler's library offers a few insights into the mind of a tyrant

Ludwig Wittgenstein came from an extremely dysfunctional family

Andrew Roberts reveals new facts about Churchill's War Cabinet

Niall Ferguson reflects on the brevity of the Third Reich

Charles Darwin first publicized his theory of evolution 150 years ago

Adam Kirsch debunks another bad book by Pat Buchanan on World War 2

Wernher von  Braun made rockets from V2 to Saturn V: a new biography

Book review: Postwar Britain endured bitter austerity from 1945 to 1951

New books on Winston Churchill question his conduct of World War II

From 1941 to 1945 the Mufti of Jerusalem lived as an honored guest in Berlin

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the UK and addresses Parliament

Nicolson Baker's book on the origins of World War II is no good at all

Illustrated review of Operation Barbarossa and the Soviet defeat of Nazism

New York Review essay on the problem of evil and the Holocaust

Illustrated celebration of the ancient Greek gods and their advantages

Illustrated memorial of the early Chinese emperor Qin and his army

Harvard Magazine review of the life and works of Niall Ferguson

My cut of Francis Fukuyama on the history at the end of history

My own review of Niall Ferguson's big book on the Second World War

My critical review of "war nerd" Gary Brecher on the Second World War

 

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Psychology and Neuroscience
 

Carl Gustav Jung wrote a wonderful Red Book for himself, first published now

Blue Brain is showing all the right signs as the simulation improves

Jane O'Grady reacts with shock and horror to the eliminative materialists

Every time a memory is recalled it must be reconsolidated and can be changed

What Bill Joy, Bill Gates and the Beatles have in common is lots of practice

Emily Singer presents some stunningly detailed views inside living brains

Oliver Sacks reports on a well documented outbreak of manic depression

Belated report in English of the Haynes version of the Libet experiment

Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff on how the mind works

Hirnforschung: Berliner Prof. J.-D. Haynes bringt den freien Willen in Frage

John Derbyshire's blog of Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008

The IBM Blue Brain project to model a mammalian pyramidal column

Scientists have used MRI scans to predict which images viewers see

Report on production of synthetic DNA and artificial life

Fascinating speculation on the neurological roots of fundamentalism

Sigmund Freud was a premodern pioneer of paradigms for psychology

Some reviews of Henry Stapp's quantum physics of consciousness

Illuminating review of the psychopharmacology of love

The roles of erotic and platonic love in contemporary U.S. academic life

Response by Michael Zimmerman to my JCS essay on our robot future

Response by Stephen Robbins to my JCS essay on our robot future

 

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Religion and Atheism
 

David Hart directs some fine polemic against the New Atheists

Robert Wright reflects on the globalizing pull of the Abrahamic religions

New work on the evolution and economics of religion looks promising

Terry Eagleton prefers Aquinean mysticism to the hard words of "Ditchkins"

Richard Wolin thinks faith is making a comeback and cites Charles Taylor

Brendan O'Neill spikes the flaws in a shrill New Atheist movie called Religulous

Two books on evolution and religion draw the fire of the Edge Reality Club

Michael Brooks reviews recent results on the psychosocial origins of religion

Alex Byrne on the ontological argument and arguments by design for God

Bede Griffiths on transcending the ego via love and meditation

Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg reflects on the decline of religion

Richard Holloway is a former bishop who writes popular books on ethics

Dan Dennett airs his views in Templeton journal Science & Spirit

Stuart Kauffman on the theme of his new book Reinventing the Sacred

My link-decorated cut of a review by John Gray of recent atheist books

Explaining Religion is a European science project to study religious belief

Alan Wolfe on the inexorable progress worldwide of secularization

Edited works by Theodore Dalrymple, including his review of atheist books

Report of a lunchtime chat with Christopher Hitchens in Washington, D.C.

Miscellany of reactions to Richard Dawkins' book-length rant against God

Extended set of texts on and by Mark Lilla and Charles Taylor on religion

My cut of two reviews of Rémi Brague on the roots of divine law

Christopher Hitchens reports on his own best-seller, Richard Dawkins too

David Sloan Wilson argues that Richard Dawkins is wrong about religion

My pairing of an outraged review of Hitchens and a bland review of Jesus

Brief report of Niall Ferguson's prediction that Islam could sweep Europe

My cut of a long review of the God books by Harris, Dennett, and Dawkins

Mary Eberstadt on how the West lost both religion and big families

My cut of an Edge page by Elaine Pagels on the Gospel of Judas

Reviews of Pope Benedict XVI on Jesus of Nazareth and on dialectics

Christopher Hitchens reports on Islamic penetration of his native London

New Yorker report on Christopher Hitchens and other militant atheists

My own earnest statement presenting a secular answer to fundamentalism

 

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Philosophy and Consciousness
 

David Gelernter ponders the difference between human and artificial thought

Two New Humanist gems: Scruton on Pessimism and Grayling on evil

The philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger cover some horrible slime

John Gray mounts a fundamental attack on A.C. Grayling's philosophy

Martin Heidegger was a Nazi, but this is the least troubling part of his legacy

Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson's revisionary metaphysics of the self

Jerry Fodor takes a penetrating poke at Michael Tye on externalism

The 13th annual meeting of the ASSC took place in Berlin in June 2009

Thomas Metzinger's new book The Ego Tunnel follows Being No One

Giles Fraser on Friedrich Nietzsche on the genealogy of morals

Michael Rosen on Allen Wood on Immanuel Kant

American philosopher Stanley Fish deconstructs French philosophy

My summary of my current stance on panpsychism, and Fodor on Strawson

Press response to the fight between Ted Honderich and Colin McGinn

Philosopher Saul Kripke turns 65

Martin Heidegger: his philosophy and Hannah Arendt

Chris Frith and others on brain scans and the new view of mind

Review of the philosophy of Richard Rorty

Review of Douglas Hofstadter's 2007 book on strange loops

An interview with 1970s cult philosopher Robert Pirsig

 

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Middle East and Asia
 

Global press reaction to the botched Israeli raid on ships with aid for Gaza

Aaron David Miller despairs at 40 years of a stalled Mideast peace process

Ian Bremmer predicts an economic cold war between China and the West

Gordon Chang looks pessimistically at the future of China

William Dalrymple has written a moving account of religious life in India

The People's Republic of China celebrated its 60th anniversary with missiles

Robert Baer presents the case that Iran will be the next Middle East hegemon

Martin Amis reviews the history of Iran and the reasons for remaining wary

Tariq Ali updates us on Pakistani military action against the Taliban

A review of three recent books on Iran and its revolution adds depth to the news

Obama will have a hard time selling the two-state solution in the Middle East

Pakistan has been culpably negligent in facing up to its fundamentalist threat

The Chinese Communist Party is adapting itself to keep up with the times

The Pakistani offensive against Taliban forces is just in time

Greg Sheridan defends Israel against growing Arab anti-Semitism

David Samuels explains why he thinks Israel will bomb Iran

Three wise men advise President Obama on how to deal with Iran

The security situation in Pakistan is tending toward catastrophe

Demolishing Hamas and learning the lessons of the Lebanon war of 2006

Christopher Hitchens and Joshua Hammer on the Mumbai atrocity

The Iraq war may deserve a "VI Day" just to let the vets achieve closure

A divorce in Israel highlights the risks of converting to Judaism

Israel news: F-22 Raptors, lame ducks, taking out Hamastan, ...

Love and marriage in Saudi Arabia and murder of a daughter in Iraq

Li Yang is China's Elvis of English and the founder of Crazy English

Saudi despots are shamefully successful at subverting justice in the UK

Some recent developments in the Gaza Strip

My cut of Tariq Ali on Pakistan at 60 and some notes on Benazir Bhutto

Pictorial celebration of the Chinese city of Dalian and its ladies

Analysis of the Chinese politico-economic system and comparison with Japan

Critical analysis of the environmental costs of Chinese economic growth

My cut of Avishai Margalit on Israel as a moral compass

Tariq Ali reviews Saudi Arabia and its corrupt politics

Discussion of the implications of joint Chinese-Russian military exercises

Gadi Taub on liberalism, democracy and the Jewish state

 

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My Blogs
 

My weblog for 2010, Q1

My weblog for 2009, Q4

My weblog for 2009, Q3

My weblog for 2009, Q2

My weblog for 2009, Q1

My weblog for 2008, Q4

My weblog for 2008, Q3

My weblog for 2008, Q2

My weblog for 2008, Q1

My weblog for 2007

My weblog for 2006

My weblog for 2005

My weblog for 2000-2004

 

 

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