Blog Salad Are we the enemy? September 11, 2014Alma Alexander We are living in a science fiction novel. Is our species evolving into a new superorganism taking over Earth? Gaia Vince thinks so. At BBC.com he makes the provocative argument…Continue readingAre we the enemy?
Blog Salad Is Tolstoy really 11.6% better than Shakespeare? September 26, 2013Alma Alexander In an article at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova explains how 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers were asked to list ‘The Greatest Books of All Time.’ Well, actually,…Continue readingIs Tolstoy really 11.6% better than Shakespeare?