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Pollan recounts our co-evolutionary relationship with the apple, the tulip, the marijuana plant, and the potato. Very good stuff.
Up until recently, if I needed to launch a child process from a Python program, I would use the system() function in the os module, because it was the easiest one for me to remember how to use. This is despite the fact that system() is rarely what I actually wanted. For starters, os.system() runs [...]
The online gallery at The Institute of Official Cheer is one of the few things that reliably makes me laugh until I cry. The book is a fine addition to the Institute’s offerings.
A travel writer takes broad aim at the travel writing industry and quite a bit more. Did you know that New Zealand is the junior varsity version of the Pacific Northwest? And that Eric Clapton is the most over-rated guitarist in modern times?
I don’t know how to describe this book. Damme good, ‘tho. Feller knew what he was about.