astrophysicist; computer scientist; avid reader of books; favorite writer: P.G. Wodehouse; favorite book: too many, but maybe The Name of the Rose
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal …
Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2014. …
second try at Horowitz and found them both boring and slow
A pure delight: Uncle Fred spreading sweetness and light once again.
How Life Imitates Chess is a book by former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov …
I found this book to be unevenly written, and often naive (the whole business part seems naive), but there are many very very good lessons from someone who has pushed the envelope of human performance as nobody else has.
This is an amazing book that Laura Garrett wrote back in the 90's. For anyone that has read the more …
Melanie Mitchell: Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover, 2009, Oxford University Press, USA)
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions …
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier …
This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen …
Very well written, tells the story vividly.
