Category Archives: book reviews

Bookshelf

Posted on 30 January 2024 by Erika Cule

Recovery You’re reading again. my brother remarked, last fall. You said you couldn’t read before. I jolted. It was true. When I am depressed I lose the ability to read books. This is one of the worst symptoms. Staring at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Bibliotherapy

Posted on 11 April 2016 by Erika Cule

When in doubt, read the instructions is to productivity what aphorisms are to meaning.

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MOOC review of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

Posted on 11 January 2015 by Erika Cule

The Coursera course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue started again on Monday – there’s still time to sign up! I took the course in the second half of 2014, making me a Think Again alumnus. If you are … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on 3 November 2014 by Erika Cule

One of the advantages of being “Beyond the PhD” is having enough time to do all of those things I used to want to do when all of my time was taken up by writing up. After handing in my corrections, and … Continue reading →

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Margaret McCartney at Skeptics in the Pub

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Erika Cule

Back in 2009, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, said in an interview I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. More recently, his review of Nate Silver‘s The Signal and the Noise, Larry … Continue reading →

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Londoners by Craig Taylor and the A to Z

Posted on 11 August 2012 by Erika Cule

I moved to London in 2005. After a few weeks living here I concluded that the two most useful things to give a new visitor to the capital would be an Oyster card and a London A to Z. An Oyster … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Stefan Collini asks What Are Universities For?

Posted on 18 March 2012 by Erika Cule

I picked up What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini for two reasons. I had been impressed by Collini’s article in the London Review of Books last summer critiquing the Browne review. (I also enjoyed William Cullerne Bown‘s comments on … Continue reading →

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City Reads

Posted on 13 November 2011 by KristiV

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? And miss it each day and night? I know I’m not wrong – this feeling’s gettin’ stronger The longer I stay away. Miss them moss-covered vines, the tall sugar pines … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Misha Angrist Here is a Human Being [1]

Posted on 7 August 2011 by Erika Cule

I was reading this book on a train. My friend and fellow passenger asked me what I was reading, and then, whether it was for work or for pleasure. I was momentarily flummoxed. There’s meant to be a difference?

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Yes, We Can Have Bananas! [19]

Posted on 20 June 2011 by KristiV

On the whole, I’m a fan of Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she documents her family’s experiment with a year-long local, seasonal diet. However, I disagree with her about bananas, which she portrays as a Fruit with … Continue reading →

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