Strange Things by Margaret Atwood Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions

Featuring a new preface by the author

of beauty and ugliness

to calm the mind and to reveal the true facts of existence

reveals what psychic protections to take when doing divination

Strange Things by Margaret Atwood Brian Christian and Tom GriffithsMargaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious and disastrous Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new forms of Gothic; and how a fresh generation of women writers in