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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2019/08/31/further-reading-68/
- Published: 2019-08-31T18:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-13T11:27:00.000Z
- Description: Bloomberg special issue on the periodic table and the elements. Machine behaviour. A day in the life of a tree. Excerpt from The Understory. The insect apocalypse is driven by a 50x increase in toxic pesticides. If Sapiens were a blog post. J.M Coetzee on Australia’s shame. Mosquitoes. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

Bloomberg [special issue](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-periodic-table-elements-issue?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) on the periodic table and the elements.

[Excerpt](https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-understory/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) from *The Understory* by Robert Macfarlane.

[Machine behaviour](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1138-y?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). And an [interview](https://www.quantamagazine.org/iyad-rahwan-is-the-anthropologist-of-artificial-intelligence-20190826/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) with Iyad Rahwan, director of the the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, who coined the term Machine behaviour.

[A day in the life of a tree](https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-tree?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Review](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/how-mosquitoes-changed-everything?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator* by Timothy C. Winegard.

The insect 'apocalypse' in the U.S. is driven by [a 50x increase in toxic pesticides](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/insect-apocalypse-under-way-toxic-pesticides-agriculture/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Dark-energy mapper](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02424-8?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) will reconstruct 11 billion years of cosmic history.

If *Sapiens* were a [blog post](https://neilkakkar.com/sapiens.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Useful summary if you've read the book.

J.M Coetzee on [Australia’s shame](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/09/26/australias-shame/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), i.e. the camps where asylum-seekers who try to reach Australia by boat are detained.