Spindle History of Rod's Interests
What is Rod reading (apart from work and rubbishy sci-fi/fantasy)?
May '13 Lewis "The discarded image" April '13 Linz "Introduction to formal languages and automata" Lodge "Changing places" Postman "The end of education" Postman "Building a bridge to the 18th C" March '13 Finn "Thermal physics" Wright Mills "The sociological imagination" Nowak and May "Virus dynamics" Reif "Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics" Wolfe "Radical chic and mau-mauing the flak catchers" February '13 Chomsky "Syntactic structures" Lewis and Papadimitriou "Elements of the theory of computation" Diamond "Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive" December '12 Beevor "The Second World War" November '12 E.O. Wilson "Naturalist" Halmos "I want to be a mathematician" Ulam "Adventures of a mathematician" October '12 Atkins "The second law: energy, chaos and form" de Botton "The consolations of philosophy" Lewis "Panic" September '12 Rollings and Morris "Game architecture and design" Crawford "Chris Crawford on game design" Mills "The sociological imagination" August '12 Gelfand "Algebra" Lang "Basic mathematics" July '12 Mencken "Prejudices: a selection" Dennett "Darwin's dangerous idea" Smolin "The trouble with physics" June '12 Lewis "Panic" Rollings and Morris "Game architecture and design" May '12 Haidt "The happiness hypothesis Slater "Opening Skinner's box" Gotelli "A primer of ecology" March '12 Wolf & Perron "The video game theory reader" Donovan "Replay: the history of video games" Peter "Playing with infinity" February '12 Simon "The sciences of the artificial Dawkins "The Oxford book of modern science writing" MacArthus "Geographical ecology" December '11 Davis "Invasion biology" November '11 Tan, Steinbach & Kumar "Introduction to data mining" Thornton "Truth from trash" October '11 Amis "The second plane" Dunbar "Primate social systems" Frye "The educated imagination" May "Stability and complexity in model ecosystems" Maynard Smith "The theory of evolution" Thomson "A guide for the young economist" September '11 Conquest "The great terror" Bunney & Mar "Narrow roads of gene land: The collected papers of W. D> Hamilton" Holland "Emergence" Wasserman & Faust "Social network analysis" August '11 Berlin "Four essays on liberty" Fox "Encounter with anthorpology" Fox "Kinship and marriage" Oakeshott "Rationalism in politics" Pinker "Hotheads" Stangroom "What scientists think" July '11 Epstein "Thinking physics is gedanken physics" Gross & Yellen "Graph theory and its applications" Hooper "The river: A journey to the source of HIV and AIDS" James "Cultural amnesia" Mamet "Theatre" Trilling "The opposing self" Trivers "Social evolution" June '11: Kauffman "At home in the universe" Trilling "The liberal imagination" Maynard Smith "Mathematical ideas in biology" May '11: Fish "Professional correctness: Literary studies and political change", Clarendon Lectures Stewart "Does god play dice?" Stewart "The problems of mathematics" Veeser "The Stanley Fish reader" Waldrop "Complexity" April '11: Buchanan "Nexus" Casti "Alternate realities: Mathematical models of nature and man" March '11: a Kempis "The imitation of Christ" Holton Problem Solving Series February '11: Aurelius "Meditations" Mamet "Theatre" Solow "How to read and do proofs" Smullyan "What is the name of this book?" January '11: Junger "War" December '10: Goff "Gold medal physics" Posner "How judges think" November '10: Barabasi "Bursts" Stone "Life of Socrates" November '10: Dennett "Darwin's dangerous idea" Xenophon "Anabasis" Purves "Brains: How they seem to work" October '10: Sidebottom "VSI: Ancient warfare" (interesting counterpoint to Hanson) Lewis "The new new thing" Poundstone "Prisoner's dilemma" September '10: Hardy "A mathematician's apology" (again) Lewis "The Arabs in history" Lewis "The Middle East" Swamy and Swamy "Basic game design and creation for fun and learning" August '10: Dennett "Brainstorms" ibn Warraq "Why I am not a Muslim" July '10: Keegan "A history of warfare" Keegan "The face of battle" Officer "Everyday economics" June '10: Ridley "Nature via nurture" Gardner "Mathematical puzzles and diversions" May '10: Best "Stat-spotting: A field guide to identifying dubious data" Brockman "What is your dangerous idea?" Clark "History's children: History wars in the classroom" Gardner "Mathematical puzzles and diversions" Margulis and Schwartz "Five kingdons: An illustrated guide to the phyla of life on Earth" O'Rourke "On the wealth of nations" Ryan "Virolution" April '10: (Susan) Pinker "The sexual paradox" March '10: Koster "A theory of fun for game design" Carey "The origin of concepts" Kilcullen "The accidental guerilla: Fighting small wars in the midst of a big one" Barton "Dungeons and desktops: The history of computer role-playing games" Vilenkin "In search of infinity" Stewart "Life's other secret" February '10: Gabel "Analysis of prehistoric economic patterns" Csikszentmihalyi "Beyond boredom and anxiety: experiencing flow in work and play" Hanson "Why the West has won: Carnage and culture from Salamis to Vietnam" February '10: Taylor "Play between worlds: Exploring online game culture" Baron-Cohen "Autism and Asperger syndrome" December '09: Andreasen "The creative brain: The science of genius" Dirda "Book by book: Notes on reading and life" Blackwood "Mathematics around us" Aamodt and Wang "Welcome to your brain" Sobel "The planets" November '09: Sobel "Longitude" September '09: Bernstein "Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk" Harte "Consider a spherical cow: A course in environmental problem solving" Stone and Lurquin "Genes, culture and human evolution" Taubes "The diet delusion" Webb "Paleopathology of Aboriginal Australians: health and disease across a hunter-gatherer continent" August '09: Cohen "What's left?" Vaillant "Ageing well" Zamoyski "1812: Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow" July '09: Grayling "Against All Gods" Beevor "D-Day" Thaler and Sunstein "Nudge" May '09: Medawar "Memoir of a Thinking Radish" Biermann "Great Ideas in Computer Science" April '09: Dawkins "The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing" Bollobas "Littlewood's Miscellany" March '09: Watts "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age" Lang "The Beauty of Doing Mathematics" February '09: Mazur "Imagining Numbers (Particularly the square root of minus fifteen) January '09: Paul J. Silvia "How to Write a Lot" November '08: Schrodinger "What is Life?" October '08: Weinberg "Dreams of a Final Theory" Fukuyama "The Great Disruption" September '08: Fukuyama "The End of Order" Smolin "The Trouble with Physics" Bossomaier and Green "Patterns in the Sand: Computers, Complexity and Life" Baron-Cohen "The Essential Difference" August '08: Paul Collier "The Bottom Billion" Francis Fukuyama "State Building" Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont "Intellectual Impostures" July '08: Peter Bernstein "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" Michael Lewis "Liar's Poker" June '08: Ayaan Hirsi Ali "The Caged Virgin" Mark Steyn "America Alone" Northrop Frye "The Educated Imagination" Tim Harford "The Logic of Life" May '08: Sam Harris "End of Faith" Robert Frank "Choosing the Right Pond" Isserman and Kazin "America Divided"
What is Rod listening to?
February '12 Justice December '11 M83 June '11 Daft Punk March '11: Neutral Milk Hotel February '11 Die Antwoord November '10: Arcade Fire October '10: Lots of House (too much Bucovina) July '10: Lots of Moby Tiesto May '10: Autokratz "Animal" Strokes April '11: Ministry of Sound (various) Muse "The Resistance" (still hate it) December '10: Muse "The Resistance" August: La Roux "La Roux" June: Elbow "The Seldom Seen Kid" April: Pnau "PNAU" Ladyhawke "Ladyhawke" Goldfrapp "Seventh Tree" March: Lily Allen "It's Not Me, It's You" Katy Perry "One of the Boys" (yikes) Nine Inch Nails "The Slip" February: Nine Inch Nails concert at the Hordern Pavilion Front 242 "Moments" January 2009: Kings of Leon "Only by the Night" Leonard Cohen concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre December: The Presets "Apocalypso" Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere" October: KMFDM David Guetta Muse August: Gnarls Barkley "The Odd Couple" Hercules and Love Affair July: Daft Punk "Alive 2007" Muse "Origin of Symmetry" May: Mika "Life in Cartoon Motion"
Just because I can...
Wish from the Hordern concert