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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2025/11/09/further-reading-110/
- Published: 2025-11-09T11:52:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-10T18:47:59.000Z
- Description: How to get the best night's sleep. My favorite thing is monsters. How AI redefines scientific research. Manga in translation. Data centers. Rick Owens. Mrs Dalloway. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

The New York Times [profiles](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/03/books/emil-ferris-monsters-horror-comics.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Emil Ferris's "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters".

How to get the best night’s sleep: [what the science says](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03148-8?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[AI is not just another research tool](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03572-w?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com); it is redefining what research is, how it is done and what counts as an original contribution.

[Creative experiences and brain clocks](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64173-9?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[The case that AI is thinking](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/the-case-that-ai-is-thinking?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Of course, the question is what is meant by "thinking".

[Mrs Dalloway’s demons](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n19/david-trotter/unconditional-looking?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Large language models appear to possess [metalinguistic capabilities](https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-models-analyze-language-as-well-as-a-human-expert-20251031/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Thomas S. Kaplan plans to [securitize](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/22/leiden-largest-private-collection-rembrandt-thomas-kaplan-fractionalisation?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) the [Leiden Collection](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2023/04/07/rembrandt-and-his-contemporaries-history-paintings-from-the-leiden-collection/) of Dutch Golden Age painting with the shares to be listed on a public stock exchange.

[The West is lost](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/west-europe-america-lost.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) at least according to German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz.

Nature surveyed scientists about their [favourite cinematic moments](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03440-7?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

Financial Times [interview](https://www.ft.com/content/c959d09a-bebe-4243-845d-da40772286e5?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) with Rick Owens.

[How manga was translated for America](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/14/books/manga-comic-books.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Inside the [data centers](https://t.co/w6X8XYsf0j?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) that train A.I. and drain the electrical grid.

When athletes devote large amounts of energy to running or cycling, [they unconsciously cut back on energy output elsewhere](https://go.nature.com/4nqUnc4?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Lorraine Daston [reviews](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n19/lorraine-daston/kaboom?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) *Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction* by Sadiah Qureshi.

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of [two alternative antipredator color strategies](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7368?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability. "Medina et al. found that camouflage was more beneficial when it was rarely used by prey and in low-light environments, whereas warning coloration was less beneficial in high-predation environments, where competition between predators may motivate them to sample aposematic insects."

[Foraging ants as liquid brains](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506930122?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Georg Friedrich Haas’s 11,000 Strings](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/arts/music/11000-strings-park-avenue-armory.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) at the Armory in New York.