Well, as Grace Kelly once said (in To Catch a Thief), “That’s Warm, Friendly France for you!“ Houellebecq, France’s most controversial modern writer, was hailed as the defining voice of nihilism after his novel Atomised 10 years ago. But he now compares the chattering classes’ hatred towards him to Nazism. He says his relationship with… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Slightly new look to the web site and blog. In addition to an official Farrellmedia logo with which I can now brand the hell out of everything I post, I’m also shifting the delivery of all our online video segments to Brightcove’s CDN and Media Player, which I think is the best thing since sliced… Continue reading
Nice post by Moshe Rozali about the problems facing physicists trying to unify general relativity and quantum physics: Alas, there are many indications (which I may get to at some stage) that quantizing the gravitational field is problematic: when going down to length scales for which the quantum mechanics of gravity is important, we simply… Continue reading
Talk about a guy with a Napoleon complex. Sheesh.(Real Life: Better than any Parody.)
The Sox upend the Angels again. Here’s the LA Times: They are the Atlanta Braves for a new generation, an unhappy label not easily removed. This was their chance to stake their claim as an elite franchise, maybe their best chance, maybe the last chance before Teixeira and Francisco Rodriguez cash in this winter. “You… Continue reading