Science
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Exercised. Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding, Daniel E. Lieberman (ISBN 978-0-525-43478-8, Vintage Books)
I heard about this book in a podcast about running. 2 journalists discussed their own running habits and struggles and one of them mentioned this book as a good one to read. I definitely found it interesting as it gives insights from an evolutionary perspective to why so many people struggle to exercise even though…
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Wondering Feynman
‘I wonder why.I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder!‘― Richard Feynman
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Why Science Embraces Its Failures
‘Science is always trying to prove itself wrong, because thqt is the quickest route to finding out what is actually going on.‘― Helen Czerski
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Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)
I read about this book in the paper when it came out in 2020 but didn’t buy it immediately. Then, not so long ago I decided to buy and read the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and I also got this book about Mileva Maric which I read first. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife was…
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The Mission of the IAS: Research Without Boundaries
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner and intended to be a paradise for scholars, with no students or administrative duties. One of the institute’s first faculty members was Albert Einstein who got a position there in 1933 when he had to flee nazi Germany. In 2023 the IAS…
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The Great Beyond: Higher dimensions, parallel universes and the extraordinary search for a theory of everything, Paul Halpern (ISBN 9780471741497, Trade Paper Press)
I got a tip about this book from somewhere I cannot remember. But it was a lucky tip. The book is basically a short history of what has lead us to string theory. It starts of with the mathematical extension of Euclidian geometry to more dimensions by Riemann and Gauss. Then the link is made…
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A universe filled with extra dimensions
‘The physics of extra dimensions is a revolution in the making. If the extra dimensions exist, the visible universe is just a slice. The rest is terra incognita.‘― Joseph Lykken
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Long Live the New Theory of Einstein!
‘The old theory of Einstein is dead. Long live the new theory of Einstein.‘― Wolfgang Pauli
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