“On the Genealogy of Morals” by Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals is a collection of 3 philosophical essays written by Friedrich Nietzsche. The book is relatively short, and deals primarily with the origin and value of our morals.
Books Page Moved
As some people noticed on my Twitter last week, I finally got my domain name www.tylersuzukinelson.com. It's still under construction, but I did manage to get my book page up, so I took it down from my blog and moved it here. Just a note so people don't think I stopped reading :P
On the Process of Time Management
Some of you may have heard of Cal Newport; he's currently a post-doc student at MIT and author of How to Become a Straight-A Student and How to Win at College. This term, I'm working with 2 other UBC students to run a workshop/experiment on study habits and time management as a sub-project of Cal's called Study Hacks on Campus (SHOC). In this post, I will briefly go over some of the ideas we have been attempting and discussing.
“The Lucifer Effect” by Philip Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a psychology book written by Philip Zimbardo, the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. The book was approximately 500 pages long, and I found that it could be defined in five separate parts:
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Other Psychology Experiments
- American Prisons
- War
- Conclusion
Fail Nerd Cookies
So this will be a quick update since I haven't updated in almost a month (though, I'm almost done a couple of books, so reviews on those will be coming shortly).
At the beginning of January, I decided to make Nerd Cookies (inspired by http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com). Unfortunately, I was working with a standard sugar cookie recipe, ad-lib royal icing, icing dye, knives (no cookie cutters), and zip lock bags (I don't have icing kit things). And thus, the cookies did not turn out as wonderful as planned. I'll have to practice to make them look better...
“Panic in Level 4″ by Richard Preston
Apparently, my book reviews for his other books (The Hot Zone, Demon in the Freezer, and The Cobra Event) were written on my old blog and didn't get transferred to this one... Anyhow, Panic in Level 4 is the latest book I've read by Richard Preston. Preston writes literary non-fiction; that is, he writes non-fiction novels in a fictional style. The Hot Zone, a book based on true dealings with Marburg virus and Ebola virus, and Demon in the Freezer, a book based on past stories based on Smallpox virus and Anthrax, are interesting books based on true stories yet told in a way such that any reader (assuming they can handle some of the more gory descriptions) would find them enticing. The Cobra Event is similar in that it is a story based on disease, but is different in that the disease does not actually exist--it is merely loosely based on a fusion of a virus and a genetic disorder.
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