I want to be an astronaut
Review of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog at the Night-time, as part of my #100bookschallenge. During my time as a demonstrator in Oxford’s historic Dyson Perrins lab, I had the...
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The art and science of remembering things
Review of Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, as part of my #100bookschallenge. Moonwalking with Einstein is the story of a journalist who went to cover the 2005 US Memory Championship as an...
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Review of Richard Feynman’s QED: The strange theory of light and matter The title of the post is a quote from Feynman’s book. Written by a Nobel laureate and one of the most beloved scientists, it is...
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Review of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Even though it’s less than 100 years ago, the 1930s was a very different time from today. Racial discrimination was rife in America even though it had been...
View ArticleThe most remarkable theory of how to achieve happiness
Review of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Happiness is subjective. And yet, it is hard not to relate to someone else’s happy moments. In this book Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced as mihayli...
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Review of David Bradley’s Deceived Wisdom A quick, interesting read for those who like reading websites like Quora (and later having arguments in a pub). This is a book about setting the facts right....
View ArticleWhen free will, causality and privacy are all at stake
Review of Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier’s Big Data We live in a world where flu outbreaks are predicted faster and more accurately by analysing Google search results rather than by...
View ArticlePersonal metamorphosis
Review of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis “Sir,” said a letter to Kafka in the last few years of his life, “You have made me unhappy. I bought your ‘Metamorphosis’ as a present for my cousin, but she...
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We don’t value tinkering as much, but that’s what makes the world great
Review of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great by Alec Foege The inventions of the late 19th and early 20th century that define our modern life were the result of...
View ArticleTo become an elite sportsperson, you need to win the genetic lottery
A review of The Sports Gene by David Epstein Winners, it is said, are not born but made. That, however, is not the whole truth, as David Epstein, an investigative reporter with Pro Publica, shows in...
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