OK so this one is bit of an oldie from 2010.. But if you haven't heard it it's new to you.

I'd just gotten Symphobia, Tonehammer's (now 8DIO) Epic Dhol and Bamboo sample libraries and was taking them for a spin. I also may have had just seen Avatar at the time.

There's more to the song, but I never got around to finishing it... bummer!

Spearhead (Intro)

Ahoy Mateys! (Unfinished Preview)

Free (Instrumental)

8Dio Instruments used:
Agitato Grandiose Legato

8Dio 2016 Stand Out Contest Submission: "Hallucination and Prophecy" by Mark van Mechelen

Theseus’s Ship has Sailed: Book Review of “The Strange Death of Europe”
Douglas Murray urges readers to take notice of the fatal blow Europe’s politicians have already dealt the European civilization.

Allons Travailler! 001: Theseus's Ship has Sailed, Book Review of 'The Strange Death of Europe'

Liberty’s Dim Light: Book Review of China Miéville’s “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” and “Iron Council”

China Miéville holds a Ph.D. (2001) in International Relations from the London School of Economics, is a member of the socialist democratic party in England, and the founding editor of Salvage, a quarterly of revolutionary arts and letters. He wrote ‘Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law’, but is perhaps best known as an author of fiction, where for his novels he has won among other awards the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, and Locus literary honors.

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Allons Travailler! 002: Liberty’s Dim Light: Review “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”

The Trigger-Happy Mouse Trap & Goal-Setting from First Principles: Book Review of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark shed tears after emerging from a London science museum in 2014, but by early 2017, his heart had warmed.
In Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI, Tegmark explains his concern that all might be lost if AI security issues are not taken seriously.

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Allons Travailler! 003 - The Trigger Happy Mouse Trap, Life 3.0: On Being Human in the Age of AI

If you want to learn about cognitive biases all humans share, you might start with Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, or the paper he wrote in 1974 with friend and colleague Amos Tversky, ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’.

Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner have given us an interesting way to practice doing so in their book, Super Forecasting. In their story about a relatively small group of super forecasters who beat IARPA’s own government-backed researchers in a tournament of geopolitical forecasting, Tetlock and Gardner provide a blueprint for beginning one’s own journey of forecasting better than the average human (or at least better than you yourself do now).

You can support my work at https://patreon.com/evm/

Allons Travailler! 004 - All of Life is a Wager (Super Forecasting by Philip E. Tetlock)

Is there such a thing as a conservative intellectual? In the inaugural episode of Rather Be Reading, The Point Magazine podcast, we discuss  the "What Happened to the Public Intellectual?" panel that we attended during the Brooklyn Book Festival and why there is resistance to the notion that conservative intellectuals exist. Plus, a "Charitable Reading" segment on why lefties despise David Brooks (featuring famous Brooks hater Jake Bittle) and a bit where we check in with Jon's mom.

Editors: Jon Baskin, Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman
Guests: Jake Bittle, Judy Wise

Rather Be Reading, Episode 1: Conservative Intellectuals

Every week, I write essays about the most important books I'm reading. As a science fiction writer, I also like to ask What if? as a start to short fiction and novels.

Allons Travailler! 004 - All of Life is a Wager (Super Forecasting by Philip E. Tetlock)

Erik van Mechelen - Essays and Fiction