Al B

Al B

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  • member since Monday, October 15 2007

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  • The Theory of Clouds
    • Rated 0 stars

    Not a review just a personal reflection:
    I wrote this poem about 2-3 years ago when I joined the Cloud Appreciation Society - This book is a wonderful affirmation. Google them-it is worth the time.

    How Humans Get to Heaven

    Men make photographs of their shapes
    Makes them appear like objects of gravity
    We animals descended from the apes
    Are captives and makers of earth’s depravity

    Writing a formula for a cloud is pointless
    When we think we have it right
    It vaporizes and mocks our foolishness
    Exposed and basking in blue light

    Water is such a common thing for thus
    It takes a cold day to expose our breath
    Show us that clouds are spirits within us
    Whose airy domain transcends our death

    Al B wrote this review Friday, December 7 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
    • Rated 0 stars

    I just finished reading this book. As it happens I was reading "End of Faith" at the same time. The resonance between the two was quite astounding., even down to the page count. They both ended up in a review of current analysis techniques of the brain, but the disparity in the approach was marked, Harris concentrating on the dangers of faith the well being of the current world and Zimmer describing how religious conflict pervaded17th century England, yet science somehow managed to lay the groundwork for a modern understanding of the brain, the mystery of the soul and the need for the world to finally understand how dangerous belief without evidence really is.

    Al B wrote this review Friday, October 26 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
    • Rated 0 stars

    I just finished reading this book. As it happens I was reading "Soul Made Flesh" at the same time. The resonance between the two was quite astounding., even down to the page count. They both ended up in a review of current analysis techniques of the brain, but the disparity in the approach was marked, Harris concentrating on the dangers of faith the well being of the current world and Zimmer describing how religious conflict pervaded17th century England, yet science somehow managed to lay the groundwork for a modern understanding of the brain, the mystery of the soul and the need for the world to finally understand how dangerous belief without evidence really is.

    Al B wrote this review Friday, October 26 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
    • Rated 5 stars

    This s a must read for anyone (everyone) who sees a future for planet earth. The Oct07 National Geographic features a Bill McKibben essay, "Carbon's New Math" in a Changing Climate issue. The climate crisis go well beyond rethinking energy futures.

    Al B wrote this review Thursday, October 25 2007. ( reply | permalink )
    • Rated 5 stars

    I have been an Anne Dillard devotee ever since I read it years ago. I must go back a reread it.

    Al B wrote this review Thursday, October 25 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    • Rated 4 stars

    I read this book a long time ago. Thought it was a pretty good record of the time w/o suffering through the mumbo jumbo of the participants. I will say the drug thing is still hopelessly misrepresented. The End of Faith ( is on my current reading list. Read the chapter "Eden" to see what I mean.

    Al B wrote this review Wednesday, October 24 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
    • Rated 3 stars

    Started out as an interesting review of travel with students in Africa and it contains a great deal of interesting information thereto. However the use of the driver as the center of a literary trick to hold interest turned out to be wholly disingenuous and detracted from the story in my opinion. I would guess some editor was behind this weak trick but can you really trust an English teacher?

    Al B wrote this review Saturday, October 20 2007. ( reply | permalink )


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