But for fantasy tropes, you focus more on the realness of this high school and the way that the teenagers relate to each other. There's no dueling class and no magical animals, and nobody wears robes. So could you talk about how you decided to-- how you decided to do the setting and how you decided which kinds of tropes to lean into
Last Halloween, Tim Verstynen spoke eloquently on the neuroscience of the zombie brain, and today Sam will discuss his newest book, "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery." In this book he shows how neuroscience developed over the centuries.
together at Skylight books in La a couple years ago and we were sort of bitching before the reading about having to write sex SC and I was like why don't we read dueling sex scenes for the uh for the signing he's like that's a great idea cuz he was complaining about his and I was so he gets up and he reads his and it's plucking the Lear of her love you know like the wind blew through the
Anderson tells a history of something we're all familiar with, at least vaguely, the Protestant work ethic, and how it gave rise to dueling interpretations. One of those interpretations was proworker, and the other was not. And unfortunately, the anti-worker version
OK, well, that's a good segue way into your relationship and the dynamic. Like you market yourselves as the dueling violin brothers. But how much does sibling-- like a sibling rivalry, but also how, when you know someone so well and you've grown up together,
You know that we come from Georgia where dueling banjos are a big thing, at least in some movies. So we tried to do dueling marine buzz if you like, and present kind of the dueling aspect and Shimon with the gestures-- and this is again, Guy Hoffman's work-- project some personality.
This actually was a PSA of Georgia Tech for three or four years. You know that we come from Georgia where dueling banjos are a big thing, at least in some movies. So we tried to do dueling marine buzz if you like, and present kind of the dueling aspect and Shimon
highways in Alameda County. So we put together a coalition that would have dueling transit plans. We said, if you support a livable agenda, an environmental agenda, folks that opposed you last time
back home, crash his glorious flowing locks through the walls of Valhalla like a blonde wrecking ball, and challenge that soon to be de-brained d-bag to a one-on-one death match. The dude showed up to the dueling field clad in armor made from stone and accompanied by twelve-foot-tall clay gollum. But nothing was going to deter Thor's implacable fury and his insatiable desire for giant homicide. The Defender of Asgard was so furious and pissed about the whole "I'm going to rape your wife thing" that the gollum took one
And so this debate about how best should we help people is actually extremely important. So luckily, we don't have to have this debate in this arena of dueling assertions. It doesn't have to be this theoretical or philosophical debate about what people are really like.
the death penalty is applied approximately 45 times a year in a country that has almost 17,000 homicides. Also abolished during the humanitarian revolution were witch hunts, religious persecution, such as burning heretics at the stake. . Dueling , blood sports, debtors prisons and perhaps most famously, slavery. Slavery used to be legal everywhere on earth. As you can see the number of states that abolished slavery in the 1600. But in a process that began in the second half of the 18th century it was targeted for elimination in country
entire income comes from profit or interest or some kind of income flow from ownership of an asset. Well, it's such an important point and I we have these dueling versions of the work ethic, but they're not equally valid in the sense that one of them is a logical
That's like, well, if you want to complain about America, get out. And it's actually like, no, you're allowed to have dueling emotions. That's actually human. You're allowed to have made the biggest bet of your life, to not want to go back on it because you made
Nobody will buy any copies, and there you go. So I said, OK, but at the heart of the book are two dueling ideas about Tesla's style as an inventor. And I think inventors, like artists, have a style.