![]() ![]() ![]() Photo: Abbey Koningshoeven by Natasha von Geldernįriday 16 October 2015 at 6.30PM Strung with Poets' Sinews Three Rilke SonnetsĬentre for Modern Literature & Culture, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Sunday 01 November 2015 Listen, Listen in Dutch Premiere Listen, Listen, O My Child performed by the Ad Parnassum & Anthony Zielhorst (conductor)Ībbey Koningshoeven, Tilburg, Netherlands Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2UE Tuesday 01 December 2015 Tale of Andrew performed in Wells The Tale of Andrew ![]() Also on the programme Michael's song 'In love with the Nurse' and works by Bach, Britten, Mahler and Berlioz. Ian McEwan reads from his current book 'The Children Act' ('Kindeswohl'), from the German translation by Christiane von Poelnitz. Wiener Konzerthaus, Lothringerstrasse 20, Vienna, A-1030, Austria Wednesday 09 December 2015 at 7.30PM Ian McEwan and Angela Hewitt Three Cabaret Songs performed by Angela Hewitt (piano) ![]()
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![]() ![]() This can be a useful skill, but these anchor numbers can often be completely arbitrary. When we need to estimate something, like the value of a bottle of wine or how tall a tree is, we tend to start from a readily available number-or anchor-and then adjust it until we reach a plausible conclusion. One type of heuristics is known as Anchoring, something we’ve talked about on this blog before. However, they can also be deeply flawed, and even dangerous. Most of the time, heuristics are harmless or even advantageous when it comes to helping us make everyday choices. One such term is “heuristics,” used to describe the cognitive shorthand people use to make decisions. ![]() In their decades of research, Tversky and Kahneman coined a number of terms that still exist in behavioral economics today. Not only is this not true, as Kahneman and Tversky would spend their whole careers proving, we’re almost the complete opposite! People are nowhere near as rational as they think they are ![]() ![]() In the beginning, scientists, economists, and marketers all saw people as rational, left-brained individuals who were capable of using hard data to make decisions without being swayed by emotions, instincts, or false beliefs. Healthy habits are the most powerful tools you can give employees. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() We had no Wise Men because she didn’t believe there were any wise men, but we had sheep. I cannot recall a time when I did not know that I was special. So she did the next best thing and arranged for a foundling. She was very bitter about the Virgin Mary getting there first. ![]() She had a mysterious attitude towards the begetting of children it wasn’t that she couldn’t do it, more that she didn’t want to do it. There were friends and there were enemies.Įnemies were: The Devil (in his many forms)Īnd me, at first, I had been brought in to join her in a tag match against the Rest of the World. At election time in a Labour mill town she put a picture of the Conservative candidate in the window. She wanted the Mormons to knock on the door. ![]() ![]() She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She was in the white corner and that was that. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle it didn’t matter what. Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. ![]() ![]() ![]() They embark on the journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a personal transformation, changing their priorities and values along the way. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. Paulo's travels take him farther to the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam filled with young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense, meditating and playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness, and the search for an inner truth. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life: first on the famous "Death Train" to Bolivia, then on to Peru, later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. ![]() ![]() This “Elseworlds” tale - a story that takes place outside the DC Universe canon - occurs in a future where a vigilante segment of the super hero population, emboldened by public sentiment, have broken the established “code” set by the traditional heroes, and have started killing villains rather than incarcerating them. ![]() I last read it in High School, and have held it to such a high standard since that inaugural reading, I feared the scrutiny of my “adult eye.” Kingdom Come was the closest collected edition at hand, but to be frank, I was a little wary about returning to it after more than a decade. ![]() It has been many, many years since I last read Mark Waid and Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come, but after watching the enjoyable (but heavily flawed) Justice League, I was in the mood to indulge my love of all things DC Comics. ![]() ![]() That acted as a constraint on the types of planets his aliens could live on, and Weir scoured the galaxy to pluck two actual observed planets to base the ones in his book on. But rather than plucking a horrifying beast from the depths of his imagination, or going down the cash-strapped Star Trek wardrobe designers’ route of sticking some plastic bits on a human, Weir uses the same scientific approach that characterised The Martian to come up with a plausible alien life form for his new book. ![]() ![]() (Mild spoilers follow).ĭuring his journey, Grace encounters an alien life-form on a similar mission to him: a spider-like creature with a thick exoskeleton that breathes ammonia and finds oxygen poisonous. In the book, which is released today, a wise-cracking American man called Ryland Grace wakes up in a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and who has to rely on just his wits and a series of science experiments to save not only himself, but the human race. It’s clearly a winning formula – MGM has already picked up the movie rights, Ryan Gosling is attached to star. ![]() That idea became the seed of Project Hail Mary, Weir’s new book, which sees a return to what he calls the “isolated scientist story”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ono’s narration drifts between past and present, coming across as scattered as you’d expect from an old man looking back on his life. He also spends time with his grandson Ichiro and tries to hold onto the serenity he’s found. In the present, Ono works to arrange a suitable marriage for his daughter Noriko. His reflections cover the ‘Bridge of Hesitation’ and Japan’s pleasure district known as the Migi-Hidari. Ono is a proud man who dedicated everything to his art in the years before World War Two. In his retirement, Ono has grown used to tending his garden, being visited by his daughters and reminiscing on the past. The story focuses on famous painter Masuji Ono and his family. The book features a post WW2 Japan recovering from its scars and looking towards the future. Ishiguro has established himself as a talented storyteller and I was drawn to the novel because of my fascination with Japan. I recently picked up An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. One of my goals for 2019 is to read more widely, and that involves becoming familiar with authors from different backgrounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non. And then there's that vampire cat Chet, who's getting bigger and smarter-and thirstier-by the minute. ![]() Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.Ībby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she's really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high Skankenstein® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). Well, reborn, that is, now that they're vampires. ![]() See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. ![]() ![]() What Morrie discovers after holding Rothstein at gunpoint is that the known Jimmy Gold novels – including the third one where Jimmy appears to have sold out – are just part of the literary cycle that John Rothstein has conceived in his Runner series. When Morrie and two thick headed accomplices break into Rothstein’s remote New Hampshire farm, they are looking for fabled hoarded cash, yes, but Morrie also wants answers from his literary idol: “Why in God’s name couldn’t you leave Jimmy Gold alone? Why did you have to push his face down in the dirt like you did?. But the reclusive author hasn’t published anything for decades, and Morris Bellamy, small time criminal, is incensed. His iconic anti-hero, Jimmy Gold (whose catchphrase is “Shit don’t mean shit”) has resonated with readers like Holden Caulfield a generation before. The story centers around writer John Rothstein, who is considered by some to be one of America’s greatest authors, akin to Hemingway, Salinger, Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Roth. A blood drenched, visceral, scary love letter to literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finders Keepers is Stephen King’s love letter to literature. ![]() |