After seeing David Agus on the Daily Show, and receiving The End of Illness as a birthday gift from some work colleagues (thanks guys!), I was looking forward to some new insights from this book. I wish I could say that it lived up to its promises (and my expectations): Can we live robustly until …
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Books | When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone
I have to admit that it was the author, rather than the subject matter, that first intrigued me about this book. Gal and I arrived in Germany at about the same time and took part in the same fellowship program together. At that point, When They Come For Us, They’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle …
Books | 1Q84
This book took me a good half of a year to finish, but I guess that’s to be expected… It is a heavy 924 pages, so I always left it on my bedside table in Bremen for nighttime reading. Given that I’m only in Bremen 3-4 nights a week these days, and that I fall …
Run Less, Run Faster
It is sadly ironic that as I write this post, I am sitting at home with a ridiculously miserable cold and am about as far from being able to run as I can get. But that hasn’t stopped me from dreaming, planning and scheming about my next races! The basic concept As someone who seems …