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Wise Animals by Tom Chatfield

Jan 21, 2025 | panmacmillan.com | New Scientist |Matthew d'Ancona |Richard Fisher |Roman Krznaric

Imprint: PicadorSynopsisA Science Book of the Year in The Telegraph'Timely and wide-ranging . . . ambitious in its scope' – New Scientist'One of the best books on technology and culture I have read' – Matthew D'Ancona, The New European'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming WaveIn Wise Animals, Tom Chatfield excavates human history to uncover our... Details336 pagesImprint: PicadorReviewsTimely and wide-ranging . . .
Why do we clap?

May 24, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Richard Fisher

By Richard FisherAt the Cannes Film Festival, standing ovations can last for more than 10 minutes. It begs the question: what drives human beings to smack our hands together to applaud? There's long, and then there's the standing ovations of the Cannes Film Festival. After Horizon: An American Saga screened there recently, the audience clapped for seven minutes. And that's not even the longest ovation in the festival's history.
LINKS - March 6th, 2024

Mar 6, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Joshua Hunt |Richard Fisher |Ingrid Wickelgren |Abigail Tulenko

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments.
REVIEW: The City of Marble and Blood by Howard Andrew Jones — DMR Books

Jan 19, 2024 | dmrbooks.com | Richard Fisher

I have read large quantities of praise and hype for the Chronicles of Hanuvar. Is it merited? How much of it is just lip service? Now that I have had the opportunity to read the books currently available I can form my own opinion. Baen is billing this as a S&S series. I have to disagree. It is something else entirely. Something different. Something more. Yes, it appeals to the fandom. Yes, it is written with concise prose found in the spirit of the pulps.
REVIEW: Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones — DMR Books

Dec 14, 2023 | dmrbooks.com | Richard Fisher

Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew JonesBaen Books2023Cover art by Dave Seeley Howard Andrew Jones is one of many individuals instrumental in the resurgence of S&S today. He is a fan, first and foremost, with many friends within our little fandom. Howard is also an author. His bibliography, while not yet enormous, is well favored and received by readers. For example, as of today, Lord of a Shattered Land has been rated and/or reviewed by 118 people on Amazon and 39 on Goodreads.
The moment I lost my sense of time

Dec 11, 2023 | longviewer.substack.com | Richard Fisher

You’re reading The Long View: A Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. In today’s edition, an end-of-year reflection about a time-disrupting accident, and The Long View appears in ‘best of 2023’ book lists. As 2023 comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on an event earlier this year that totally disrupted my sense of time – and how lucky I was that it wasn’t worse.
The seven dangers of long-term thinking

Nov 27, 2023 | longviewer.substack.com | Richard Fisher

You’re reading The Long View: A Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. This edition features the traps to avoid when taking the long view… plus a new special series about time that I commissioned for the BBC. Thanks for reading The Long View: A Field Guide! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. A question you might not expect from this newsletter: is the long view dangerous?
The Long View

Sep 27, 2023 | hachette.co.uk | Richard Fisher

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I went to see the Time Pyramid. It won't be finished until 3183AD

Sep 18, 2023 | longviewer.substack.com | Richard Fisher

You’re reading The Long View: A Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. This edition features the very slow construction of the Time Pyramid in Germany, more places to access deep time, and an important fact-check of Busted’s ‘Year 3000’… -Hello there,I recently travelled to the town of Wemding in southern Germany to report on a rare ceremony for the New York Times. It only happens once every 10 years.
Until A.D. 3183, this public sculpture is a work in progress

Sep 17, 2023 | ekathimerini.com | Richard Fisher

It could be mistaken for an abandoned construction site: a row of rectangular concrete blocks on a bare, square foundation. Yet on Saturday, a crowd of around 300 people gathered on a hill outside the town of Wemding, in southern Germany, as a crane lowered another block into place, alongside the first three. Some spectators had traveled from as far as San Francisco.