So I'm about halfway through A Beautiful Math and it's interesting so far, but I'm not in love with it or anything. I have four books lined up to read after it that I'm pretty excited about (three I got from the library, then another Jeeves book I ordered), so I'm looking forward to finishing it. But something pretty great happened last night: I'm reading a chapter on evolutionary psychology and I come upon this:
"One of the more interesting critiques comes from philosopher David Buller, of Northern Illinois University in Dekalb."
My alma mater! NIU! It's not a big enough school (like UW Madison) that seeing mention of it is common-place. One of my friends got an M.S. in philosophy there, so I bet he even knows this guy. And I forgive Tom Siegfried, the author of the book, for not knowing we capitalize the "k" in DeKalb.
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Hey, I had him for a class - I really liked him!
ReplyDeleteNo kidding! That's awesome! Thanks for coming over today - I don't know if I ever would've started sewing the dress without moral support!
ReplyDeleteYou started sewing the dress! That is so cool about the NIU guy. Yeah, I bet Tim knows him too. Talk to you later!
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