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Super-Signalling
Evolution has created a nasty cognitive hack that ethologists call the super-stimulus. I’d like to propose a term for a related behaviour.
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Sweet Nothing : The Gospel According to Frank Bascombe
Richard Ford wraps up the Bascombe saga and leaves the reader with a sense of miracle.
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Saying is Believing : Authenticity, ‘Hypnosen,’ and the Startup Myth
Hypnosen is great fun, but it paints a picture of the startup circus I don’t fully agree with. Not all entrepreneurs are full of shit, and pitching isn’t just a spectator sport.
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Nothing is Real : Amanda Gefter is Thinking About Life, the Universe and Everything
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is a coming of age story—not only for an exceptional science writer, but for the entire cosmos itself.
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A Conversation With Jacek Dukaj
He is Poland’s most popular science fiction author, with his work adapted for both the silver screen and a Netflix original series. He also engages deeply with geopolitics, on Earth and beyond.
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Seeing the Light : Fei-fei Li and the Dawn of AI
Fei-fei Li has had a front-row seat to the cutting-edge development of AI over the past couple of decades. Her biography is captivating.
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Commonplacing : Nurturing Slow Hunches from Notebook to Knowledge
Carmen Berzatto does it. Sherlock Holmes did it too. How about you, do you commonplace?
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Building the Good City : One Man’s Mission to Transform Gothenburg and Reinvent Urban Renewal
My dad’s PhD dissertation chronicle’s the life long struggle of an entrepreneur hell bent on making a dent in the universe. It’s a memoir masquerading as a thesis. It’s very inspriring and I’m happy I finally got around to reading it.
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A Conversation With Sara García Alonso
Sara García Alonso is a research scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, and a class of ’22 reserve in the European Astronaut Corps.
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A Conversation With Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli is an author and an experimental physicist. His team at CERN was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Stockholm Swinging : A Love Affair with My Adopted City
A city is swinging when the people living in it feel that they’re making it what it is.
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Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.
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Quantum Bootcamp
Sweden has been lagging badly behind when it comes to quantum tech. Most of the funding has been provided by private players and there’s been no national strategy. That’s starting to change now.
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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Build Peace in the Middle East
They say there’s a special type of peacefulness preceding storms. That felt true of the atmosphere in Israel and Palestine during the spring and summer of 2000.