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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese
Coming at a language as an outsider isn’t always a disadvantage. What first feels like an insurmountable barrier can become a vantage point.
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Weaponised Randomness : Monte Carlo from the Manhattan Project to The Three-Body Problem
They call it “weaponized randomness.” I had no idea what it really was until I stumbled across it in three consecutive books.
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Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
If there’s nothing fundamental about ‘elementary’ particles, if nature never bottoms out, then what remains to hold on to?
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Teach, Don’t Tell : Lessons in Mastery, From Tennis to Welding
What’s true on the court is true in the workshop: effective teaching relies on clarity, precision, and the ability to transcend words.
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Quantum Primitives : An Ontology in 12 ½ Chapters
Mapping out the primitives of a field is a useful way to understand its landscape. In the case of quantum technology, this approach proves especially challenging—but equally rewarding.
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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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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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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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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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Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism
It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.