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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2025/06/06/further-reading-107/
- Published: 2025-06-06T11:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-30T17:13:04.000Z
- Description: Rose petals. Hailstones. The unpleasantness of thinking. The moon. Shrunken heads. Hobbits. Surrealism. Drone warfare. Mendels' pea traits. William Kentridge. Patricia Lockwood. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

Geometrically frustrated [rose petals](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0672?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[AI is nothing like a brain](https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothing-like-a-brain-and-thats-ok-20250430/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), and that’s OK.

[How does ChatGPT ‘think’?](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01314-y?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models.

Why do [hailstones](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01618-7?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) get so big?

[The unpleasantness of thinking](https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000443.pdf?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com): A meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect.

[Two new books](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/lunar-myths-and-mysteries-our-moon-rebecca-boyle/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.

At home with [William Kentridge](https://www.ft.com/content/bae7304c-b7bf-4d15-ad10-795968705717?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Answers](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01164-2?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) to a 160-year-old riddle about the genetics of Mendel’s pea traits.

How to be a [great thinker](https://www.ft.com/content/c42cb640-a03c-441b-868f-d1a92d78bcb7?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Read more books. Be multidisciplinary. Assume you might be wrong. Keep learning.

How much [energy](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-think-20250604/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) does it take to think?

Lotions and perfume can weaken a ‘[human oxidation field](https://www.science.org/content/article/lotions-and-perfume-can-weaken-human-oxidation-field-made-your-skin?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)’ made by your skin. Personal care products may chemically alter the air around us. Whether that’s good or bad remains unclear.

Early barred galaxy raises [questions about cosmic evolution](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01444-x?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Michiko Kakutani on why Silicon Valley’s most powerful people are so obsessed with [hobbits](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/books/tolkien-musk-thiel-silicon-valley.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

The observation of [bonding behaviors in wild chimpanzees](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01557-3?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) suggests that some aspects of human attachments have a deep evolutionary origin.

Some (good) [remarks on AI](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz) by Neal Stephenson.

Chris Ware [reviews](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/pure-thought-on-paper-sunday-olivier-schrauwen/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel *Sunday*.

[Shrunken heads](https://www.science.org/content/article/shrunken-heads-long-charged-ritual-meaning-finally-get-scientific-attention?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), long charged with ritual meaning, finally get scientific attention.

[Why even try if you have AI?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/why-even-try-if-you-have-ai?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[New drone technology](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/12/arms-race-in-ukraine-tim-judah/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine - and demonstrating the obsolescence of much Western weaponry. Exactly.

Jed Perl on [a century of surrealism](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/15/a-century-of-surrealism-andre-breton/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Google DeepMind has used chatbot models to come up with [solutions to major problems](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01523-z?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) in mathematics and computer science.

Thousands buried in 17th century Italian crypt reveal [lives of working poor](https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-buried-17th-century-italian-crypt-reveal-lives-working-poor?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

A prediction of the gravitational waves produced by interacting black holes achieves high precision and demonstrates the [link between general relativity and geometry](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01339-x?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Fairy Pools by Patricia Lockwood. [Excerpt](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/fairy-pools-fiction-patricia-lockwood?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) from her forthcoming novel *Will There Ever Be Another You*.