Words&Dirt

Since I began listening to NPR’s Planet Money and the Slate Money podcast, I’ve hatched a significant desire to correct my deficiency in economic and financial knowledge. When I heard John Lanchester plugging his new book on the “Read These Books Edition” of Slate Money, I thought How to Speak Money would be a good starting […]

“In Ravna’s opinion, sex in zero-gee was not the experience some people bragged it up to be; but really sleeping with someone…that was much nicer in free fall. An embrace could be light and enduring and effortless.” ––A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge, loc. 5424   “When people say, ‘It can’t go on […]