Review of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel, both a neuroscientist and recovering addict, is pretty well positioned (to say the least) to give an overview of drug addiction that ties together the underlying neurological basis with the actual subjective experience of addiction. Needless to say, this made for a really interesting read.
Brief notes on stuff I've been reading
Just what the subtitle promises, a history of the concept of infinity from the ancient Greeks to the modern mathematical formalism of infinity. I am in general a huge fan of DFW nonfiction, but I couldn’t connect with this one at all. Only made it about a third of the way through.
Review of A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book
I really had a wonderful time reading this one. John Barton, Oxford Theologian and ordained Anglican Priest, managed to write a very thorough, honest history of how the Bible that we have today came to be in it's present form. Or rather, the best guess we have at how it came to be in it's present form. Naturally, there is a still a lot of controvery over many of the details. He managed to do this in a way that felt refreshingly honest, without the circular reasoning of theists (the scriptures…
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