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Asimov on Creativity

October 23, 2014

This has been making the circles this week, but just in case your circles don’t include some of my circles, I thought I’d share. An article Asimov was hired to write on creativity for Allied Research Associates back in the late 50’s has recently surfaced. Reminiscent of other Asimov essays, I thought you all might enjoy. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Tagged: Asimov, Creativity, DARPA, Essay, Isaac Asimov, Technology Review

Isaac Asimov’s Reading List

July 16, 2014

Of late, I’ve become somewhat fascinated with the reading lists of folks I find interesting. We have Roosevelt’s reading list, and Hemingway‘s, and sites like Art of Manliness have even begun to make this a feature (only two so far, but I’m sure they’ll post more). We’ve always had lists like the Harvard bookshelf and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books/Reading Tagged: Asimov, book, I Asimov: A Memoir, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, reading list, Shakespeare, Victor Duruy, William Shakespeare

Thoughts from the library

July 10, 2014

I’m sitting in the local branch of our library system while two of the kids go off to look at books and learn new things. If today goes well, I’d like this to be something we do more often. Growing up, the library was one of those “refuges” from the real world that I recall … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books/Reading, Personal Tagged: Asimov, book, Isaac Asimov, library, Ray Bradbury

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