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Further Reading

The detection of gravitational waves confirmed. The brain’s sense of space and time are intertwined. A profile of Marvin Minsky. When philosophy lost its way. Interview with Gerhard Richter. The physics of flocking birds and swarming molecules. Images from 5 years of Lagos Photo Fest. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the terrible beauty of brain surgery. More Knausgaard. A conversation with Philippe Descola. 5 science myths that won’t die. The top 25 science stories of 2015. For male peacock spiders, the best dancers get the girl. Causes of death in Shakespeare’s plays charted. And more.
· Blog | Literature | Non-Fiction

The Best Books of 2015

A selection of the best books I read this year in a number of categories: best fiction, best big history, best book I wish I had read years ago, best book by a French academic, best economics and most disappointing.
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Further Reading

The Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich. A Q&A with Gerd Gigerenzer. Excerpt from Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell. The books of the year according to The Economist and the Financial Times. An interview with the American art critic and historian Hal Foster. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

A conversation with Jürgen Habermas. A promising idea in complexity theory. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art houses one of the world's greatest unseen collections of modern art. The average walking times between central London's Tube stations. René Girard has passed away. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics. Karl Ove Knausgård on the role of editors and the practice of writing. Angus Deaton Nobel Prize in economics. A brief introduction to the history and mathematics of labyrinths. Yale University has put 170,000 photos of the US from 1935 to 1945 online. And more.
The Great Beauty
· Blog | Film

The Great Beauty

"La Grande Bellezza" (The Great Beauty) is one of those films that I want to watch again and again because of its beautiful cinematography and its memorable monologues and dialogues not to mention the beautiful soundtrack.