Further Reading
What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide. And another guide for choosing the right tool.
How event scripts structure our personal memories. This is what I referred to as schemas in my PhD thesis.
James Meek in Greenland. I'm going in June/July 2025!
The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century.
Evaluating animal consciousness. An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically.
Biggest brain map ever details huge number of neurons and their activity.
On Nan Goldin.
The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway map is the latest of many attempts to capture the sprawling network on paper.
Inside arXiv—the most transformative platform in all of science.
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science.
Are we taking AI seriously enough?
How to survive the AI revolution. Same magazine as the article link above!
How fridges and freezers influence what we eat.
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts. "Nearly 20 years ago, a study of collective motion in locusts published in Science concluded that animals moving collectively do so in a way similar to particles. Sayin et al., including authors of the original study, combined field and laboratory studies and found that locusts, and likely also other animals moving collectively, do not follow a 'self-propelled' particle model."
The people who still use typewriters.
Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off cancer and even slow ageing.
Review of Revolusi. Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck. An excellent book best read in conjunction with The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer, two superb documentary films about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66, which Reybrouck does not cover in his book.
The price of American “safety”. A number of new books recount the horror America created and then left in Afghanistan. Can anyone grasp the realities of occupation and the “war on terror” if they haven’t been on their receiving end?