The Sleep of Reason by David James Smith

Correct me if I am wrong but you don’t advocate for completely stopping hiring string theorists right? She is an ASTRO person. Looks like she is much less nuanced than people like you. She is wishing string theorists should never be hired (at 31:20). “if they are not testable now they are not predictions”: Thanks for teaching me that when Einstein “predicted” gravitational waves it was not a prediction until 100 years later. So are we supposed to learn the history of string theory from someone who doesn’t know what Pauli got the Nobel for? She wrongly included String theory in a nutshell (by Elias Kiritsis) as a popular science book among Kaku’s and Brian Greene’s books. This person doesn’t look like she EVEN knows string theory at the popular science level. She told there are 10 string theories (at 16:00) and were unified even though there are only 5. With the help of the police officers who investigated the case and additional access to people – including Bobby Thompson’s mother – and much sensitive information that did not emerge during the trial, David James Smith has written a human and compassionate portrait of a frightening crime.īy this means The Sleep Of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten year olds could kill.Life hack: If someone is not even putting enough effort to focus while talking and instead is gaming while speaking then that video is not worth watching. To all appearances they are unremarkable children.

One is chubby, with cropped hair, the other wiry, hair styled in a wedge. One collects troll dolls, the other is preoccupied with computer games. Here are two ten year olds with unbroken voices. The boys are gradually pulled into focus, through a detailed recreation of their day on February 12, the extraordinary series of interviews that followed their arrests and the background to their troubled lives at school and at home. It looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to give an honest and exact account of the events that surrounded the killing of James Bulger. The Sleep Of Reason peels away the outer layers of the story in search of an explanation. But, distorted and obscured by the frenzy of publicity that followed their trial, Jon Venables and Bobby Thompson remain an unknown presence at the heart of the case. Now the world has heard the identities of the two ten year olds who were convicted of murdering James Bulger. In between they abducted a two year old child and killed him on the railway line. They began the day playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop.

The Sleep of Reason by David James Smith