"We conduct the decennial Census every ten years."
From one of the six (!) annual trainings required to maintain Special Sworn Status at the Census Bureau.
A long pondered but only lately realized blog about economics, politics, evaluation, econometrics, academia, college football and whatever else comes to mind.
"We conduct the decennial Census every ten years."
From one of the six (!) annual trainings required to maintain Special Sworn Status at the Census Bureau.
Mandel, Emily St. John. 2022. Sea of Tranquility. Knopf.
Wow! Time travel. Plague. A few stragglers from earlier books. A complex, recursive plot. Canadian content. Big philosophical questions. What more could one want?
I was reminded of the Robert Silverberg time travel stories that I read in high school, and the paradoxes that they highlighted. Those paradoxes are here as well, but in the background, with the characters, as usual, in the foreground.
One subplot concerns a famous female author doing a book tour. It seemed particularly heartfelt, as does the descriptions of lockdown during the book's plague. I have a theory as to why that covers both.
I enjoyed this tremendously. Highly recommended if you like what one might call, and I will call, literary science fiction.
I purchased a "signed" edition from Barnes and Noble when it first came out.
Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason Kerwin, Juan Muñoz-Morales, Jeffrey Smith, and Rebecca Thornton
Wow! The best movie I have seen in a while (where "a while" includes seeing the best picture winner at the Oscars). Fun, frantic, and conducive to the thinking of big thoughts.
This review from the Globe and Mail captures my take on the movie pretty well.
Keeping with the Toronto theme, this review from Now magazine highlights the negatives. I agree with them that cutting the least important 10-15 minutes would have made for a stronger movie, but I think I would have retained the hot dog fingers.
Oh, and Jamie Lee Curtis is amazing.
Recommended if you're in the mood for a wild ride.
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