I think one of the next books I read will be Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. The book was recently published and Kurzweil has been known to produce some interesting ideas. In fact, I am planning to read a few of his other books as well.
Konrad Zuse’s Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) is a book which proposes the idea that the universe is computed by cellular automaton. Thanks to MIT and Zuse’s family, the book can be downloaded as a pdf.
Small Stuff, a tumblr site by the author of Infinity Imagined, contains incredibly magnified images of all sorts of objects. Here are just some of the great images!
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| A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod |
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| The Empty Shell of a Diatom |
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| The Wing of Butterfly |
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, provides a qualitative explanation for the progress achieved by various human societies around the world. The book contains insights into the important factors which develop and destory civilizations.
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