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Homicide

Martin Daly and Margo Wilson

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Steven Pinker loved it
It is one of two books that first excited me about evolutionary psychology. The other was Donald Symons's The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Homicide is a cornucopia of insights into human nature.

on fivebooks.com · 7 Oct 2011 · Report

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
At its best, which was frequent, simply some of the best story-telling I've ever encountered. Season 6 drags a bit — the dialogue is not quite so good, and there is too much soap-opera among the detectives — but season 7 picks up a bit, especially towards the end, and the final episode is, I think, a brilliant ending.

on bactra.org · 31 Mar 2007 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.