Ivar Hagendoorn

Ivar Hagendoorn

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The future of Himalayan glaciers. Imagining creativity beyond "Nature" and "Culture". Claude Shannon and the nature of information. Photos from the Cassini mission. How to choose wisely. Hidden memories of plants. Our genetic prehistory. Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better? And more.
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The mind of the octopus. How much more can we learn about the universe? A pre-history of post-truth. Religious freedom in Europe was driven by statecraft. The greatest civilization ever forgotten? J.M. Coetzee on a great writer we should know. 100 books set in/about Los Angeles. And more.
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Charles Taylor on some conditions of a viable democracy. Alaska's permafrost is thawing. An appreciation of Fernando Pessoa. Arthur Schopenhauer the first European Buddhist. Francis Fukuyama still believes in progress. The mysteries of the Russian mindset. Karl Ove Knausgaard by the book. And more.
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A new inventory of the universe’s dark contents. How your mind protects you against hallucinations. You are the product. The curious conundrum of Freud’s persistent influence. The LA rag trade. Books we don't understand. How to defeat procrastination. A blue pigment. Computer music. And much more.
Banff National Park
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Banff National Park

Banff National Park has it all: mountains, forests, lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, grizzly bears and lots of visitors. Three days clearly wasn't enough.
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A Nash equilibrium is often impossible to reach efficiently. Space may not be not what you think it is. The strange topology that is reshaping physics. Hitchcock talks about film making. The clothing choices of the homeless. Uber's hard-charging corporate culture. An appraisal of Raphael. And more.
Jasper National Park
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Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. I had booked a full-day hike on the Athabasca Glacier. My hike to Mt Edith Cavell was cut short by an aggressive grizzly bear.
Stanley Glacier
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Stanley Glacier

The Stanley Glacier hike in Kootenay National Park is pretty awesome. It is sometimes referred to as the fire and ice trail, because it goes from burned forest to alpine meadow, to the receding Stanley Glacier.
Walcott Quarry
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Walcott Quarry

In 2017 another long-held dream came true when I had a chance to visit the Walcott Quarry, the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
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A new gravitational wave discovery. Martin Scorsese on filmmaking. Reconstructing faces from neural population responses. Amazing new picture of Jupiter. China's great rivers. Is conspicuous consumption over? Regret. The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming. And more.
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A new theory of the history of life on Earth. The mathematics of juggling. Can a mind can be located outside of the head? Chris Ware on Saul Steinberg. Where oil rigs go to die. The world is running out of sand. The quantum thermodynamics revolution. The pleasures of pessimism. And more.
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Where have all the insects gone? Why Amazon is eating the world. Listeners prefer new violins and are unable to distinguish between new and old violins. Empire of Things. Louis Kahn. Using homes as ATMs. Cosmic inflation faces challenges. Two books about owls. An amazing dinosaur find. And more.