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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2024/10/06/further-reading-103/
- Published: 2024-10-06T13:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-31T15:21:43.000Z
- Description: The unraveling of space-time. The largest ever brain map of the fruit fly. What finance is for. Depression. Death of the department store. Flow. Pierre Huyghe. Michel Houellebecq. Richard Powers. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

The unraveling of space-time. [Special issue](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling-of-space-time-20240925/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *Quanta Magazine* explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality.

[Pierre Huyghe’s posthumans](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-paul-stonard/at-the-punta-della-dogana?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Why fiction is no longer interested in [financial complexity](https://www.ft.com/content/df67fb68-5c12-4560-b54c-d59d1b7645be?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Perhaps it's getting too complex?

[Depressing news for people suffering from depression](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02857-w?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com): the symptoms of depression might come and go, but new evidence suggests that the pattern of brain wiring behind it remains the same for life.

[Largest brain map](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail. Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell.

New Yorker profile of [Richard Powers](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/richard-powers-profile?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). I look forward to his new novel.

Massive Attack’s [science-led drive to lower music’s carbon footprint](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02835-2?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Climate scientist Carly McLachlan partners with the UK band to put the environmental impact of concerts centre stage.

Michel Houellebecq has [lunch](https://www.ft.com/content/73338e2e-331a-4be3-88d4-a0d9e4216c8a?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) with the *Financial Times*.

[Death of the department store](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/rosemary-hill/at-the-musee-des-arts-decoratifs?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). One of the advantages of department stores is that you can try a piece of clothing without being bothered by a shop assistant, but can ask for assistance if you need it.

[Neurons in certain brain areas](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03116-8?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) integrate ‘what’ and ‘when’ information to discern hidden order in events in real time.

Mathematicians discover [new shapes](https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-new-shapes-to-solve-decades-old-geometry-problem-20240920/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) to solve decades-old geometry problem.

John Lanchester on [what finance is for](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-every-winner-a-loser?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

The [flow state](https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/flow-state-science-creativity-psychology-focus?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

On Freedom. Timothy Snyder’s timely [manifesto for our fearful age](https://www.ft.com/content/634296d0-7335-4bd9-9662-6b0f678940cf?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).