(Image Credit: goodreads.com) Fecundity in thought and fastidiousness in deed, are not attributes one associates with a man who has accidentally plunged headlong into the sea through the gaping porthole of a ship. Yet fertile thinking and methodical planning seize Henry Preston Standish, the unfortunate protagonist of Herbert Clyde Lewis’ satirical tragi-comic novel Gentleman Overboard … Continue reading Gentleman Overboard – Herbert Clyde Lewis

Ann Cleeves is back with another offering forming part of the Two Rivers series and she manages to pull off a riveting thriller – yet again! The bestselling author and the creator of Vera and Shetland makes a desolate, windswept, isolated, quaint but intriguing location of Greystone, Devon the most unusual setting for an enthralling … Continue reading The Raging Storm – Ann Cleeves

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) The only text by Anaximander (c. 610 – c. 546 BCE) that has been privy to us reads: “All things originate from one another and vanish into one another/According to necessity/They give each other justice and recompense for injustice/In conformity with the order of time.” Even though constrained by an absolute dearth … Continue reading Anaximander and The Nature of Science – Carlo Rovelli

(Image Credit: Penguin Books) Lewis Mumford, in his seminal book on the invention of clocks – Technics and Civilization- concluded that the clock had the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus ‘nourishing the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.’ Social critic, media theorist, and author Neil Postman goes one … Continue reading Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman