Ivar Hagendoorn

Ivar Hagendoorn

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Further Reading

The girl with a pearl earring may not be wearing a pearl earring. How a commercial airplane is built. Longform Best of 2014. What happens when you strike a match. The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal remembered. Why is everyone so busy? Britain’s war in Afghanistan. Books of the year. And more.
· Blog | Literature | Non-Fiction

The Best Books of 2014

A selection of the best books I read in 2014 in various categories, from best fiction and best non-fiction to most fashionable, most eye-opening and the best book about Wittgenstein that is(n't) about Wittgenstein.
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Further Reading

A resistance checklist by Lebbeus Woods. The reason I'm so inefficient. The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Jean Tirole. Andrew Gelman & Eric Loken on the statistical crisis in science. The ubiquitous Tracy-Widom distribution. Kishtwar Kailash: road to basecamp. Why hipsters look alike. And more.
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Further Reading

JM Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz in conversation. Sand is rarer than you might think. The most detailed map yet of our place in the universe. Why walking helps us think. A Q&A with Karl Ove Knausgaard. Dreadnoughtus: a new dinosaur discovery. The lethal lure of Mont Blanc. And more.
Zermatt
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Zermatt

Zermatt lies at the foot of some of the most magnificent mountains in the Alps. In summer it is a hiking paradise.
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Further Reading

What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? An interview with Philip Roth. The etymology of the different names of tea. America in decay. Profile of Shigeru Ban. The Iberian Peninsula by night as seen from ISS. History of the term scientist. Profile of Isadora Duncan from The New Yorker (1927). And more.