‘Burn After Reading’ and ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
Burn After Reading: Witty, Smart, and Hilarious. Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Spain's buildings and gardens are fresher than the story.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
This is a movie shouldn't have been made. Rachel Weisz was smart. She chose to drop out because of the bad script. For those who didn't drop out, they seems tired and they don't connect to each other at all. It's a shame to bring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh…
Mamma Mia! and The Dark Knight
On the contrary to the critics who rave about "The Dark Night", I don't like it very much. Someone even claims this is a Oscar contender, but I found it is too dark and there are too many loopholes. The bad guys just keep winning, and the movie just seems never end. How…
Blink
[abp:0316172324:c:alignright]Author: Malcolm Gladwell Rating: [rating: 3/5] The author starts the book with an event around Getty's collection of a kouros sculpture: how historians hunch the kouros sculpture might be a fake at the first sight, but all the scientific approaches fail to discover. The author then introduces the center phrase…
A Beautiful Math
[abp:0309101921:c:alignright]Author: Tom Siegfried Rating: [rating: 1.5/5] John Nash became known to many people because of the movie "A Beautiful Mind", but the movie only focused on his personal struggles and almost ignored what made him a Nobel laureate. In this book, Tom Siegfried sets out to let people know Nash's…
A Short History of Nearly Everything
[abp:0767908171:c:alignright]Author: Bill Bryson Rate: [rating: 4.5/5] I am really amazed by the vast amounts of human knowledge that this 560-page book covers: From pre-history to the current event; from the quark to the black hole; from the bottom the sea to the rim of the universe; from the sing-cell to…
A History Of The World In Six Glasses
[abp:0802714471:c:alignright]Author: Tom Standage Rating: [rating: 5/5]
The Unfolding of Language
[abp:0805079076:c:alignright]Author: Guy Deutscher Rating: [Rating: 3.5/5]
Top 10 News of Physics89 in 2001
Wang, Fusheng 10. The number of Physics89 employees passes the number of students Who is the first to work, and who will be the last? 9. Physics89 new marriages: Cui, Lin; Xu, Wang; Du, Weiliang; Wang, Jun; Zhao, Runchuan; and Liu, Xiaoming How many are still available? 8. Physics89 new…