> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Further Reading - URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2025/12/24/further-reading-111/ - Published: 2025-12-24T09:25:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-17T13:09:57.000Z - Description: The AI bubble. A century of modern cosmology. A century of quantum mechanics. Cognitive dissonance. The future of search. The languages of nature. Waste. Schopenhauer. Goethe. Bachelard. And more. - Author: Ivar Hagendoorn - Tags: Blog, Further Reading [Viewing original works of art](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/28/picture-of-health-going-to-art-galleries-can-improve-wellbeing-study-reveals?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds. [Schopenhauer](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n22/terry-eagleton/pregnant-with-monsters?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) makes a stir. [Listening](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6091?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) to the languages of nature. [Interview](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-there-anything-artificial-about-artificial-intelligence/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, author of *What Is Intelligence? Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds*. The MIT Press, 2025. A century of [modern cosmology](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec1402?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Is cognitive dissonance [actually](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/is-cognitive-dissonance-actually-a-thing?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) a thing? [Will the AI bubble burst?](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/john-lanchester/king-of-cannibal-island?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) The bubble will burst but LLMs are here to stay. [The idea of "The West"](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/why-the-west-georgios-varouxakis/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Review of *The West: The History of an Idea* by Georgios Varouxakis, which I'm looking forward to reading. 100 years on, [quantum mechanics is redefining reality](https://www.science.org/content/article/100-years-quantum-mechanics-redefining-reality-us-center?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)—with us at the center. Increasingly popular theories hold that experimental outcomes really do depend on the observer. (But popularity doesn't make something true and the observer doesn't have to be "us"). [The return of the unconsciousness](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/amia-srinivasan/the-impossible-patient?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [How the web was lost](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/how-the-web-was-lost-internet-this-is-for-everyone/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [The future of search](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/donald-mackenzie/the-future-of-search?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Shortly after Google launched it became my default search engine, replacing Alta Vista. In recent years the quality of search results has gone down considerably, but it remains my go to search engine. But for how much longer? The [late prints of Anni Albers](https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/12/annis-orchestra-anni-albers-black-mountain/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [Waste](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/brett-christophers/assume-the-worst?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [Review](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/michael-wood/spellbound-gloaming?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of a new biography of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. *The Poetics of Space* remains an interesting read. When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials made an ecological decision to let it burn. [Then the blaze spread out of control](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-america-can-learn-from-its-largest-wildfire-of-the-year?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). [What makes Goethe so special?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/goethe-a-life-in-ideas-matthew-bell-book-review?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Ehh, his writing? How [international experiences](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/for-a-more-creative-brain-travel/388135/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) can open the mind to new ways of thinking. I couldn't agree more. The year in [Physics](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), [Mathematics](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-mathematics-20251218/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), [Computer Science](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20251216/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) and [Biology](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-biology-20251215/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).