(Part 3) Top products from r/comics

Check out KaBOOM! studios has a couple of Fionna and Cake graphic novels available right now. They would definitely fit the bill and they're kid appropriate, but hold up well for older readers as well.

I picked up the A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel recently and it would probably also be a good choice. I don't think the rest of the series is available in graphic novel format, but if they enjoy the comic, the books are very accessible to YA & preteen readers.

Yeah, the experiment was neat, but our brain is good at adapting to a lot more impressive stuff. For further reading The Brain That Changes Itself is great.

Robert E. Howard did a character like that, Solomon Kane. It looks like it's being turned into a pretty awful movie though...

Books - Excellent:

http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Tales-Solomon-Kane/dp/0345461509/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267833874&sr=8-1

Free E-Texts:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600851.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600851.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600861.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600841.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600871.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600881.txt

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607331.txt

Movie trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalm_kkczVM

If you like that comic, I'd recommend Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Pretty similar, in both art style and plot.

> They do not, and are far more cognitively simplistic than most people like to imagine.

Actually, the opposite is true. But don't take my word for it, take the words of someone who is an expert in the field.

Link, for the curious. Enjoy, maybe?

Well Whaddya know :)

Yes and the same was done with weaponry as it advanced. Automatics became banned, ammunition has gone through many regulations, and citizens could not own functioning or current “military” equipment. The gatling rifle is a prime example. The book on the invention and impact it had is pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Gatlings-Terrible-Marvel-Misunderstood/dp/0143115642/

When it was produced it was made privately and sold privately to individual, and debates at the time focused on whether or not it was protected by the second amendment. Eventually laws against the ‘rate of fire’ guns that exceeded a certain rate were put into place and still hold today. Automatic guns cannot be owned by everyday citizens and modifications are illegal. But saying that we shouldnt make it or create it because it didnt exist back then doesnt make sense.

Just because a weapon is more efficient or new does not mean that it should not exist or be sold as the comic implies. We already have massive amounts of regulations and subsequent laws to account for increases in technology while still protecting the fundamental rights of individuals. Another example is tank ownership, people can buy tanks but only if they are before a certain time period and only after the military/government decommissioned them to remove the weaponry because of laws to fit the changing tech.

The “it didn’t exist back then” argument would mean that most things today would not receive protections under the bill of rights.

If you enjoy it, check out Priest's other early novels. Genius mindfucks all. Specifically:

Inverted World

The Affirmation

The Glamour

Many computer scientists (and software engineers) use the scientific method. This book is a good starting point.

> word, because judaism was invented in America after Columbus...

Who said anything about Judaism?

According to the WHO: Of all men who have had their genitalia cut up for what is called 'circumcision':

• 0.8% are Jews
  
• 12.8% are Americans non-{Jews,Muslims}
  
• 68.8% are Muslims
  
  The rest are mainly a ragtag collection of tribal cultures.
  
  Nevertheless, the Jewish influence in the medical fields and entertainment industries in the U.S. are part of the reason genital mutilation is so rampant there[0][1][2][3]. Of course, the Victorian Christians got the ball rolling on genital mutilation in the U.S., because they wanted to curb masturbation.

If you find this to be an interesting idea, you should read There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story, by Gary Larson.

Alternatives to willpower

Bea and Mr Jones.

Relevant reading material

I own all the old Bloom County books. Even Loose Tails.

Haven't read much about China, have you?

Re: Epigrams, I never used a translation for Martial as I was making my own. I just Googled "martial epigrams translation" and this guy's translations are very good in my opinion - they remain close to the original Latin (that I can remember, anyway), but are smoothly rendered translations. Seems to be most of the sex-related epigrams too, where the hell was this link yesterday?!

I used the Penguin Classics translation of de rerum natura at university. It was OK. I also used the Loeb translation and a couple of lesser-known ones as it's always a good idea to use multiple translations for such complex texts. I found the Penguin easier to navigate than the Loeb, but the Loeb more often than not stuck closer to the Latin. I don't want to talk about Lucretius any more, the headaches are coming back.

There are so many sources I used for sexuality in Ancient Rome, but sadly I don't have access to my bibliography and I've always been terrible at remember author's names. My advice would be to use Google, and also check out the references in the (surprisingly detailed) Wikipedia entry for Roman sexuality.

Shots fired:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780

A little Google Fu turned up some of the images on Amazon from books done by the same production house, MADA Design. Specifically, this Superman Book (click Look Inside!)has one of the images featured in Mr. Snyder's photos.

I'd venture a guess the guys in question are two of the editors or Art Directors there.