Monthly Archives: January 2023

What I Read In January

Posted on 29 January 2023 by Henry Gee

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop It is 1959, and widowed Florence Green opens a bookshop in the sleepy Suffolk town of Hardborough. Discovering a strain of quiet obstinacy she doesn’t know she has, she ignores or attempts to sidestep the  polite … Continue reading →

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The Last Question

Posted on 25 January 2023 by Henry Gee

In his 1956 story The Last Question, Isaac Asimov has human beings ask computers of increasing power the Ultimate Question. You know, the one about Life, The Universe, and Everything. And the question goes something like this — HOW CAN … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice

Posted on 4 January 2023 by Henry Gee

This one contributed by my correspondent Professor Trellis of North Wales and received with thanks. Presumably the injunction does not apply to Residents.

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Hard of Hearing

Posted on 3 January 2023 by Henry Gee

While researching a recent tome I discovered much about the wonder that is mammalian hearing. As the so-called mammal-like reptiles of the Triassic shrank, from the size of large dogs to small dogs to cats to mice to shrews, they … Continue reading →

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