Blog - Ivar Hagendoorn (Page 22)

20 May 2018 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

A brief history of behavioral economics. What makes a tree a tree? The Gaia space observatory. Neural networks spontaneously evolved grid cells. The IceBridge expedition to the Antarctic. Freeman Dyson reviews Scale by Geoffrey West. The disappearing jobs of yesterday. Daido Moriyama. And much more.

Van Gogh and Japan

8 Apr 2018 · Blog | Art

Van Gogh and Japan

An excellent exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam highlights the influence of Japanese art on Van Gogh.

1 Apr 2018 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Slavoj Zizek reviews Blade Runner 2049. The "Humpty Dumpty" particle. Artists with a day job. The role of luck in life success. 7 years after Fukushima. AI is grappling with a replication crisis. Geert Lovink on distraction and its discontents. Interviews with Jean Tirole and Bruno Latour. And more.

Highlights from the Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear Collections

17 Mar 2018 · Blog | Fashion

Highlights from the Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear Collections

A selection of outfits from the Fall 2018 RTW collections that caught my eye.

18 Feb 2018 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Are most real world complex networks are scale-free? No longer writing, Philip Roth still has plenty to say. Why paper jams persist. Is the era of quantum computing here? Inside the Amazon's deforestation crisis. Three recent books about science's inference problem. Rongorongo. And more.

Blade Runner 2049

3 Feb 2018 · Blog | Film

Blade Runner 2049

"Blade Runner 2049" is quite simply an awesome movie. The cinematography is absolutely amazing.

28 Jan 2018 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain. Classifying all possible phases of matter. What makes a perfect croissant. Why an old theory of everything is gaining new life. Thomas Kuhn’s revolutionary ideas. Is evolutionary science due for an overhaul? What Unicode will make possible. And more.

30 Dec 2017 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

A story by Ali Smith. Why write fiction in 2017? Clemens Setz visits the Netherlands. The last remaining speaker of Taushiro. Goethe. What bullets do to bodies. A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes. The correspondence of Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia. And more.

30 Dec 2017 · Blog | Literature | Non-Fiction

The Best Books of 2017

The best books I read in 2017 in various categories: best fiction, best science, best economics, best book about the USA, most useful, most eye-opening.

26 Dec 2017 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Corina Tarnita deciphers patterns in soil created by competing life-forms. How memories form and recall works. Inequality in nature and society. A literary tour of the U.S. Žižek on ideology as the original augmented reality. Workforce implications of machine learning. Books about bread. And more.

26 Dec 2017 · Blog | Music

The Best Albums of 2017

Some of my favourite albums of the year and the ones that I expect to listen to for some time to come were classical recordings.

3 Dec 2017 · Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Why certain glaciers are prone to surging abruptly. 21 essential albums from ECM’s catalog. Interview with Edward Witten. Steven Mithen on why our ancestors started farming. Phil Klay on war as a test of religious faith. Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now do a backflip. And more.