Practicum

I love when scientists are the ones who actually go out and try shit. Leading to better crutches.


And moving huge stones with balls in slots. Or possibly baskets.

Which is why I love Mythbusters. Because, so often, Everything we Know, is Wrong. And you just have to build it, shove it around, and find out where the holes in the theory lie. Life tends not to be amenable to theory. Theory is important to help us understand, but it has to be the first virgin sacrificed, every time.

Under Heaven is indeed, worth reading. Hovering at the edges of Wuxia, readable (if not brilliant) prose style. Good characters, compelling plot, ultimately satisfying. A rollicking tale, I never got irritated and wanted to just flip to the end and find out what happened. I was happy to be drawn along, and come to the resolution as it played out.

Oh, and David Mitchell is brilliant. Thank you Pacian for that link, we've been going through all of them.