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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2013/07/31/further-reading/
- Published: 2013-07-31T17:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T18:32:05.000Z
- Description: Oliver Sacks on the joy of old age. The world’s weirdest languages. Interview with Chris Ware. A brief cultural history of Russia by Mikhail Shishkin. Paul Krugman on how the case for austerity has crumbled. Martin Wolf on how austerity has failed. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

[The joy of old age](http://t.co/farl6hFVSz?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Interesting and uplifting essay by Oliver Sacks, who turns 80 this year.

Highest gas prices? Highest sushi prices? Best for workers? Most time spent daily? [Find out the answers](http://t.co/71FYdEXW9t?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[The world’s weirdest languages](http://t.co/JGRW6XhJW6?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). German at 10\. Dutch at 12\. Who would have thought.

[Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's commencement speech at Princeton University](http://t.co/ozEelcf2id?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Full of wisdom and good advice.

[Brief cultural history of Russia](http://t.co/HTO0tt2D5g?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) by Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin. Fascinating throughout.

[Must read interview with three architects](http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/de-meuron-von-gerkan-and-ingenhoven-on-german-construction-headaches-a-905472.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) including Pierre de Meuron about three recent German building debacles. The interview is interesting on so many accounts.

[Fascinating article about the American artist James Turrell](http://t.co/CEQXZJew2F?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) whose primary materials are light and space.

[Interview with Chris Ware](http://t.co/CSGDXZfRai?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). *Building Stories* was one of my favourite books of 2012\. I'm looking forward to reading *Jimmy Corrigan. The Smartest Kid on Earth*.

[Interesting interview with Edward Tufte](http://t.co/vRoWgCnlEr?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) in the Financial Times Magazine. I especially like his choice of favourite graphics.

[Paul Krugman on How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled](http://t.co/0xha7jbKBV?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Martin Wolf on How Austerity Has Failed](http://t.co/5lrHmzU59M?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Conventional monetary policy measures (such as rate cuts) are conventional for a reason: they’re the most powerful. Central banks are only using non-conventional policies because they’ve exhausted the scope for conventional policy measures.

Es reicht nicht keine Einfälle zu haben, man muss auch noch unfähig sein sie umzusetzen.

You ask a philosopher a question and after s/he has talked for a while you no longer understand your own question.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?