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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2026/10/03/further-reading-117/
- Published: 2026-10-03T15:51:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T15:59:32.000Z
- Description: How to stay smart in the age of AI. Navier-Stokes. Complex brain waves. Europe's summer of wildfires. Weeping willows. Rem Koolhaas. Jürgen Habermas. Ali Smith. Philip Glass. John Maynard Keynes. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

[How to stay smart in the age of AI](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02930-6?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com): the science of critical thinking.

Interview with [the always interesting Rem Koolhaas](https://www.ssense.com/ja-jp/editorial/culture-ja/deep-diving-with-rem-koolhaas?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) (in Japanese, use your browser to translate). Note that the [Countryside. The Future](https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/countryside?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) exhibition referred to in the article was held at the Guggenheim New York in 2020.

A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that [dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03126-8?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Surprisingly [complex waves](https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) reveal the brain’s inner workings.

[AI co-scientists](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02931-5?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) are revolutionizing how research is done.

Over the course of his life [Jürgen Habermas](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/22/message-in-a-bottle-jurgen-habermas/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

[Review](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n17/thomas-meaney/ranks-of-humanity?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of *The West. A History of an Idea* by Georgios Varouxakis.

Europe’s summer of wildfires is just [a taste of what’s to come](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/europes-summer-of-wildfires-is-just-a-taste-of-whats-to-come/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Too hot to sleep? [How heatwaves at night affect our health](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02532-2?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

The summer [the ticks took over](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/magazine/tick-season-lone-star-alpha-gal-syndrome-lyme.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Compounds released by weeping willows are becoming [a major contributor to air pollution in cities](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02586-2?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Jill Lepore on [the America that 9/11 made](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/14/the-america-that-9-11-made?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[The falling man](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Ali Smith’s paired novels [*Gliff* and *Glyph*](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/22/catalytic-ghosts-gliff-glyph-ali-smith/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) are like a set of mirrors installed at irregular angles: themes repeat, flash, and fade, reflecting the afterimages of stories we can’t process or forget.

Philip Glass. [The virtuoso of repetition](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/22/the-virtuoso-of-repetition-philip-glass/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But [the massive result is not without controversy](https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solved-one-of-maths-1-million-millennium-prize-problems-20260908/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Terrence Tao on [mathematics in the Age of AI](https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.16753?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Dance is neither a tool nor an accessory for Madonna](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/arts/dance/madonna-dance-music.html?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). It is an unwavering force in her performing life.

A severe bout of COVID-19 can [wake up an army of dormant viruses](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02443-2?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) hiding inside the body.

John Maynard Keynes and [the search for the good life](https://www.ft.com/content/c13f9f08-2cb6-4605-893a-fd2199e4bc44?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). 

[A new play about John Maynard Keynes](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/02/john-maynard-keynes-the-cultured-economist-who-governments-turn-to-in-a-crisis?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich Hayek.