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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2023/11/12/further-reading-95/
- Published: 2023-11-12T19:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-23T10:25:00.000Z
- Description: What causes fainting? Canada's year of fire. Curiosity. The science that paved the way for the Higgs boson. A neural network with the ability to make generalizations about language. Global warming. Issey Miyake. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

What causes fainting? Scientists finally have [an answer](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03450-3?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Scientists have created a neural network with the human-like ability to make [generalizations about language](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03272-3?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Scientists have recently discovered scores of [free-floating worlds](https://www.quantamagazine.org/rogue-worlds-throw-planetary-ideas-out-of-orbit-20231113/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.

A [review](https://t.co/W8SjPPsBf1?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of the behavioural signatures, neural mechanisms and computational models of curiosity.

The ‘brazen’ science that paved the way for the Higgs boson (and a lot more). [Review](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03424-5?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of "Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature" by Robert N. Cahn & Chris Quigg.

[Canada’s year of fire](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/magazine/canada-wildfires.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?

Is it too late to keep global warming below 1.5º? [The challenge in 7 charts](https://t.co/VV8nFJbabm?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Unavoidable [future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01818-x?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) over the twenty-first century.

[The crash to come](https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/11/11/the-crash-to-come-insurance-climate/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Insurance companies have responded to climate disasters by raising premiums and dropping customers. Now there’s a new housing bubble waiting to burst.

Don’t mind me. I’m [just playing around in my Issey Miyake](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2023-10-23/on-issey-miyake-sartorial-innovations?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Notes on grief](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/notes-on-grief?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.