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In Flanders the bicycle racing season has started again and on Saturday 21st of March we had the first classic race of the year, Milan-San Remo. Wout van Aert participated and was considered an outsider after favorites Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. All three were involved in a crash some 30 kilometers from the…
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Oppenheimer. Portrait of an Enigma, Jeremy Bernstein (ISBN 978-1-56663-569-1, Ivan R. Dee)
The third Oppenheimer biography I have read. Compared to the other 2 this is a very brief one. Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist turned science writer who wrote many biographies for The New Yorker. In the introduction of the book he writes he never got around to writing a biography of Oppenheimer for The New…
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Review of Atomic Blonde: Graphic Novel Adaptation
Watched Atomic Blonde yesterday on Apple tv enjoying an evening alone at home. I had vaguely heard about it but wasn’t prepared for the graphic violence. Only after watching the movie did I read that it is an adaptation of a graphic novel. That explains the style and why there is more John Wick than…
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Dining at Wabi Sabi Leuven
Last week we went for dinner at Wabi Sabi in Leuven. We have mostly gone to Wabi Sabi in Bonheiden because it is nearby. This time we decided to combine a trip to Leuven with dinner at Wabi Sabi in Leuven. Quality in Leuven is similar. We like Wabi Sabi over some other sushi restaurants…
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a movie with Tom Cruise from 2003. He plays a disillusioned US army captain that tries forget the atrocities he committed in whiskey. He is hired to train the Japanese army in modern warfare. Although his role is that of an adviser he ends up in battle and is wounded and…
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Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes (ISBN 978-0-375-71394-1, Vintage Books)
The third book in the series on atomic weapons after ‘The making of the atomic bomb’ and ‘Dark Sun’. Chronologically it also covers the period after these 2 books and covers the nuclear arms race and the negotiations between Gorbatchev and Reagan that finally lead to several treaties that finally lead to a reduction in…
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The noble lie
‘God has created three kinds of men, made respectively of gold: the rulers, silver: the soldiers, and base metals: the common man .‘― Plato
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Platonic Misogeny
‘Those of the men first created who led a life of cowardice and injustice were suitably reborn as women in the second generation, and this is why it was at this particular juncture that the gods contrived the lust for copulation.‘― Plato
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The Mystique of Mathematical Formulae
‘One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.‘― Heinrich Herz
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Tribute to Talk Talk Concert
This week we went to a Talk Talk tribute concert called ‘In the SPIRIT of TALK TALK‘ by a few Belgian musicians in 30cc in Leuven. Stefanie Callebaut, Lennert Coorevits, Ruben Block, Isolde Lasoen, Ewen Vernal, Geoffrey Burton, Joachim Badenhorst and David Poltrock played the iconic Talk Talk album Spirit of Eden, followed by a number of the greatest Talk Talk…
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