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March 27, 2013
My Undercover Soundtrack
This week Roz Morris is hosting me at her The Undercover Soundtrack blog: I’m talking about how music influence my writing.
Roz is a long-time professional writer, editor, online persona, who have ghost-written several bestseller novels as well as written books under her own name.… Read the rest
March 22, 2013
Evolutionary Biology and Why It Is Still Needed Now. My NF-kappaB story
Someone who hopelessly banged his head against doors of funding agencies for several years, I can definitely say that evolutionary biology is not the most appealing scientific area to be in at the moment. You want to be in the biomedical research, doing things related to clinical work or design new pharmaceuticals.… Read the rest
March 15, 2013
Ancient Myths and How They Influenced Science
Science explores things around and inside us and often it needs an inspiration to recognize and classify the profound splendor of our Universe. Ancient myths are not just a vast source of thought-provoking stories but they also provide names for … Continue reading →
March 8, 2013
Film of the Week: Stoker. India’s Story of Death, Love and Insanity
Stoker is a Hollywood debut of the renowned Korean director of Oldboy Chan-wook Park influenced by a Hitchock’s Shadow of a Doubt. It’s a noir, a psychological thriller, yet a quiet meditative one, with its Oriental aesthetics and rich metaphors, … Continue reading →
February 28, 2013
Couch Potato and Self-Perfection: Oblomov vs Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Now, there can’t be two more different books than Oblomov and Jonathan Livingston Seagull save for two things. The first one is that both became instant classics after their publication and still enjoy wide readership. Another one is a common … Continue reading →
February 20, 2013
Usher Syndrome: an Idea and a Drug
There are many people around us we tend to avoid: loud, dangerous and especially sick. There are also many people who suffer from genetic diseases we’ve never even heard about. Unless, we ourselves or our friends or relatives are the … Continue reading →
February 15, 2013
PoSt Valentine’s: Top 13 Timeless Russian Love Stories
Today’s post is all about famous Russian love stories. Some of them are straighforward romance, others are psychological or political thrillers. But in the end, all of them are about love. To download the book in epub or mobi format, … Continue reading →
February 7, 2013
Theme – a Blurred Line between Grand Literature and the Firewood Material
To me, books are not worth reading just for entertainment purposes. I want to learn something about the world and about myself, I want to be provoked into thinking about important issues. Reading is a way to reflect, a mean … Continue reading →
January 28, 2013
Counter-intuitive Nature of Reality and Altruism
I see people around me living their lives as if they have eternity ahead of them. They are rarely self-aware, or think about death, or what’s after this life until they reach a certain age when frail body starts reminding … Continue reading →
January 23, 2013
Challenge: Your Toughest Question
Here’s a challenge. Ask me ANY question or suggest ANY topic you would like me to blog about and I ‘ll write a blog post about it in connection to film, science and literature in the next two months. The … Continue reading →
