Animal cruelty, pigs in shit, and the end of the human race
A review of Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer. @@@@ (4 out of 5). A writer’s foray into the hidden depths of factory farming, focused on animal cruelty.
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Author: Mal Warwick
Want to buy a brain implant? Think twice
A review of Amped, by Daniel H. Wilson. @@@@ (4 out of 5). A thriller set in the near future when brain implants “amplify” the brains and bodies of half a million Americans — and all hell breaks loose.
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A roller-coaster ride through the depths of depravity in rural Kansas
A review of Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Unraveling the truth behind a 1985 mass murder known as the Satanic Ritual Murders of Kinakee, a small, depressed farm town in Kansas, through the eyes of a survivor and of her brother, who is serving a life term for committing the murders.
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How experts make sense of the world (or don’t) with statistics
A review of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t, by Nate Silver. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). Explores the ins and outs of predicting outcomes not just in politics, poker, and sports (baseball and basketball) as well as the stock market, the economy, and the 2008 financial meltdown, weather forecasting, earthquakes, epidemic disease, chess, climate change, and terrorism.
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Feminism? In Arabia? Read it here first
A review of Florence of Arabia, by Christopher Buckley. @@@ (3 out of 5). A former State Department Middle East expert attempts to set off a feminist revolution in a kingdom closely resembling Saudi Arabia.
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