> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Further Reading - URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2018/04/01/further-reading-55/ - Published: 2018-04-01T20:08:00.000Z - Updated: 2019-08-27T20:16:25.000Z - Description: Slavoj Zizek reviews Blade Runner 2049. The "Humpty Dumpty" particle. Artists with a day job. The role of luck in life success. 7 years after Fukushima. AI is grappling with a replication crisis. Geert Lovink on distraction and its discontents. Interviews with Jean Tirole and Bruno Latour. And more. - Author: Ivar Hagendoorn - Tags: Blog, Further Reading The LHCb Experiment has discovered [the "Humpty Dumpty" particle](https://t.co/Qo96j7EU4y?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), predicted by INFN theorists more than 40 years ago. [Slavoj Zizek reviews *Blade Runner 2049*](http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/blade-runner-2049-a-view-of-post-human-capitalism/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [During learning](https://t.co/5Yevp1oHtO?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), the brain’s adaptability is limited by its own neural architecture and other hidden constraints. Research shows that [the role of luck in life success is far greater than people realize](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). People account for risk, but not for luck, which is the flip side of risk. [There should be luck managers just as there are risk managers.](http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/ironies-of-luck/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). ["Ironically, the issue of over-research has not been researched much."](https://t.co/jcAGhC7y5b?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) [Artists with a day job](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/t-magazine/art/artist-day-job.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [Opium and its derivatives have “conquered contemporary America”.](https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/americas-opioid-epidemic.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) “If Marx posited that religion is the opiate of the people, then we have reached a new, more clarifying moment in the history of the West: Opiates are now the religion of the people.” Why being a loner [may be good for your health.](https://t.co/TdldQR3ujW?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) 7 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster [photographer Moises Saman visits the exclusion zone.](https://t.co/O8DVVUTRxd?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) American author William Vollman also [recently visited the radioactive red zone](https://longreads.com/2018/04/10/as-innocuous-as-plant-no-1/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [The Comme des Garçons Fall 2018 RTW collection](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2018-ready-to-wear/comme-des-garcons/slideshow/collection?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com#15) features some fabulous over-the-top dresses. Infectious diseases and tumors show surprising similarity in their long, variable incubation times. [Two mathematicians and a biologist think they know why.](https://t.co/ew3QDA2UmA?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) [The field of artificial intelligence is grappling with a replication crisis](https://t.co/oLYnp6jZDR?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), much like the ones that have afflicted psychology, medicine, and other fields over the past decade. The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. [But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.](https://t.co/QOhqBc6svD?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) [The Abel Prize](https://t.co/CfhZHkCuIp?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), one of math’s highest honors, has gone to Robert Langlands. His namesake program has guided mathematical research for five decades. A [world history timeline](https://t.co/QnnvSjZSxF?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) showing the rise and fall of empires over the last 5,000 years. Geert Lovink on [distraction and its discontents](https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) and the current state of social media. Review of the latest volume of Marcel Gauchet's [*The Advent of Democracy Series*](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/age-of-emancipation-marcel-gauchet-democracy-review?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [A tour of India’s waste mountain](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03012-y?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). When I visited India I was astonished by the amount of garbage on the street and the throw-away culture. Thomas Nagel reviews [*As If: Idealization and Ideals*](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/as-if-kwame-anthony-appiah/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) by Kwame Anthony Appiah. [Should we mourn the death of the humanities?](https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/no-case-humanities/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) [How Amazon’s bottomless appetite became corporate America’s nightmare.](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-amazon-industry-displacement/?ref=hvper.com&utm%5Fsource=hvper.com&utm%5Fmedium=website) [Interview with Nobel laureate Jean Tirole](https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ%5Ffocus/2017/q4/interview?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [Interview with Bruno Latour](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-critical-zone-of-science-and-politics-an-interview-with-bruno-latour/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com#!) about his latest book, *Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime*. [Review](https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/meehan-crist/besides-ill-be-dead?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World* by Jeff Goodell. [Review](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/08/philip-roth-agonistes/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013* by Philip Roth.