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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2017/09/03/further-reading-45/
- Published: 2017-09-03T17:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-24T13:49:42.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

Amia Srinivasan reviews [two recent books about the mind of the octopus](https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), both of which I've added to my reading list.

[How much more can we learn about the universe?](http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-much-more-can-we-learn-about-the-universe-rp?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Brief but interesting essay by Lawrence M. Krauss.

[A pre-history of post-truth, East and West.](http://www.eurozine.com/a-pre-history-of-post-truth-east-and-west/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Postmodernism was conceived largely by the Left as a safeguard against totalizing ideologies. Yet today, it has been appropriated on behalf of an encroaching neo-totalitarianism of the Right.

Nobel laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow weaves some [threads in the tapestry of physics](http://inference-review.com/article/threads-in-the-tapestry-of-physics?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). This is the first in a series of essays. Subsequent instalments will address waves and particles, relativity, nuclear physics, and the Standard Model.

[Religious freedom in Europe was driven by statecraft not philosophy.](https://aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[The greatest civilisation ever forgotten?](http://www.historytoday.com/andrew-robinson/greatest-civilisation-ever-forgotten?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

Gregory Chaitin takes [a look at complexity using algorithmic information theory](http://inference-review.com/article/doing-mathematics-differently?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

J.M. Coetzee on [a great writer we should know](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/antonio-di-benedetto-great-writer/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) (and whom I'd never heard of).

[100 books set in/about Los Angeles.](https://bookriot.com/?p=122511&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) *Ask the Dust* by John Fante and *Less Than Zero* by Bret Easton Ellis are my favourites.

[25 Articles and essays by David Foster Wallace.](http://tetw.org/David%5FFoster%5FWallace?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)