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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2015/03/31/further-reading-16/
- Published: 2015-03-31T18:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-26T18:16:01.000Z
- Description: Why real interest rates are low. Gerhard Richter on the art market bubble. Interview with Rem Koolhaas. Part 2 of Knausgaard’s passage through America. Abhijit Banerjee on what we know and don’t know about microcredit. A strange connection between number theory, algebra and string theory. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

Ben Bernanke on [why real interest rates are low throughout the industrialized world and the United States.](http://t.co/KtsFEOvqyi?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) And Bernanke takes [a critical look](http://t.co/MFfSoWlsQJ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) at Larry Summers’ secular stagnation hypothesis.

I loved the [Givenchy Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear collection.](http://t.co/8rr3srjbfl?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). The [face jewelry](http://t.co/Z2yz74ot5F?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) was quite spectacular. I also quite liked the [Fall 2015 RTW collection by John Galliano for Maison Margiela.](http://t.co/KLKuAQ3rM4?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

Just discovered this ultrashort story by David Foster Wallace: [*Incarnations of Burned Children*.](http://t.co/eEfOkRT0Gx?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

If you haven't heard of CRISPR yet you should familiarize yourself, it's one of today's biggest underreported stories. [A good primer.](https://t.co/IP2zVDMGZ6?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[John Nash and Louis Nirenberg share the Abel Prize.](http://t.co/iXruUIkRaI?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

["The fact that I spend most of my time so stupidly only makes it more important not to waste any here."](http://t.co/xaJIRAaEag?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. [Some scientists think they have found a reason why.](http://t.co/QlaQu1n7oT?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

Gerhard Richter talks about [the art market bubble.](http://t.co/FIhLdlDBjW?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) "Der ganze Markt für Kunst ist so hoffnungslos überzogen."

[Interview with Rem Koolhaas.](http://t.co/OMK1vmFb6c?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) "There’s been very little rethinking of what cities can be."

On the trail of [a mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory.](https://t.co/TTXWFlecWZ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[Excellent essay](http://t.co/bxl1RSGXfk?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) by Yuval Noah Harari. "Terrorists don’t think like army generals; they think like theatre producers."

[The Cheater's Guide to Love.](http://t.co/FQ7Ip69iFQ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Short story from 2012 by Junot Díaz also included in This Is How You Lose Her.

Why I prefer CDs or lossless. [Music made from the audio stripped out of an MP3.](http://t.co/qkgf8kuqMt?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[Part 2](http://t.co/gpZvl46ivv?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s passage through America.

Interesting series of articles on [creative AI and computational creativity.](http://t.co/ZatIN8R6bl?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

Abhijit Banerjee on [what we have learned in the past two decades about microcredit and what we still need to know.](http://t.co/TOs9FLnFw3?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

7 randomized evaluations from around the world show that [microcredit does not have a transformative impact on poverty.](http://t.co/QlFAa9TWG5?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

French street artist Charles Leval aka Levalet has updated his site with [new work he's created in 2015.](http://t.co/LFvSrMOjYg?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[Interesting article](http://t.co/knGltFLaKC?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) about French mathematician and Fields medalist Cedric Villani and his new book *Birth of a Theorem*.

[Recycling oil barrels around the world.](http://t.co/QiMzBiqWnH?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

A wise person once said: "Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works."