DISCUSSION
GROUP
Stephen Hawking, the most revered scientist since Einstein, is a formidable mathematician and a formidable salesman. “I want my books sold on airport bookstalls,” he has impishly declared, and he’s learned how to put them there.
Sat
11
Sep
2010
If
This is a wonderful poem to all the young by Rudyard Kipling.
Wed
08
Sep
2010
Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God
September 7, 2010
By DWIGHT GARNER
THE GRAND DESIGN
By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Illustrated. 198 pages. Bantam Books/Random House. $28.
Sat
04
Sep
2010
Review of 'The Grand Design'
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Why do we exist?
Why does this particular set of laws govern our universe and not some other set?
Tue
13
Jul
2010
The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber
Roger and I find this very funny, and we wondered whether people of another culture also would think so. The piece itself is a classic of Twentieth Century American humor. James Thurber wrote primarily for the magazine "The New Yorker," which is still published weekly.