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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2020/12/26/further-reading-77/
- Published: 2020-12-26T10:21:46.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-19T13:58:54.000Z
- Description: The limits of quantum physics. A seemingly simple math problem. The universal geometry of geology. The social life of forests. An information theory of individuality. The black hole information paradox. Neutral theory. The year in science. Jürgen Habermas. Manet. Virginia Woolf. Paul Celan and more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

The [black hole information paradox](https://t.co/4BPg0YW3H1?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) comes to an end.

[What is an individual?](https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology-seeks-clues-in-information-theory-20200716/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Biology seeks clues in information theory.

A new theorem maps out [the limits of quantum physics](https://t.co/mwZ8jgSltE?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Scientists uncover the [universal geometry of geology](https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometry-reveals-how-the-world-is-assembled-from-cubes-20201119/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). I've been fascinated by patterns in nature from snow flakes and crystals to mud cracks for as long as I can remember.

The [simple math problem](https://t.co/j8ay0xfP5k?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) we still can't solve. Resist the temptation.

Michael Cunningham on [Virginia Woolf’s literary revolution](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/books/review/michael-cunningham-on-virginia-woolfs-literary-revolution.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

The [social life of forests](https://t.co/HYLQmo2hA2?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). And a portrait of the scientist who inspired one of the characters in *The Overstory* by Richards Powers.

Physicists pin down [nuclear reaction](https://t.co/o2E9GYgwtg?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) from moments after the Big Bang.

How [neutral theory](https://t.co/cANTi7DXnc?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) altered ideas about biodiversity.

[30 Jahre danach: Die zweite Chance](https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2020/september/30-jahre-danach-die-zweite-chance?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Merkels europapolitische Kehrtwende und der innerdeutsche Vereinigungsprozess. Essay by Jürgen Habermas. [English translation](https://www.blaetter.de/en/2020/09/year-30-germanys-second-chance?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Brain cell DNA [refolds itself to aid memory recall](https://t.co/gV5yNK8tQS?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Suffering, unfaltering Manet. [Review](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/03/suffering-unfaltering-manet/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years* an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–September 8, 2019; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020.

Valeria Luiselli [reviews](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/11/19/dorothea-lange-things-as-they-are/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) *Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures* an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, February 9–September 19, 2020.

The [work of Paul Celan](https://t.co/vHvUwpxoDi?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) is now available in English in its entirety. I read much of his work (in German) when I studied philosophy as part of a course on Derrida.

The year in [math and computer science](https://t.co/8D9CD6WeTW?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). The year in [biology](https://t.co/4kBV6G5LP6?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). The year in [physics](https://t.co/IUOvd9z785?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [The year in science](https://t.co/5Pbezn4D0h?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Another [year in science](https://t.co/Wf3IKVlglf?amp=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).