5 Books to Read This Summer
Ive read some terrific books lately. Here are a few you might want to read this summer. The Vital Question, by Nick Lane. He starts with the basic question of how life started.
The work hes done on that is so intriguing. He seems to be the first guy whos really looked into certain weird things about the mitochondria. He puts forward all sorts of ideas about different diseases that really bare looking into. Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind, by Yuval Noah Harari.
Sapiens is really good and theres a lot of things about early human history that most people havent been exposed to. And hes good and succinct on that. And then he goes off in many directions like, are we happier than weve ever been? And what about robots? Its got the broad frame work. Its a great book.
How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg. This book has tons of good stuff in it for a non-mathematician. He updates you about the world of math, what advances have taken place. His enthusiasm comes across.
In math, if you dont kind of practice it, you get this attrition of your mathematical thinking. The Power to Compete by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani. To me Japan is fascinating. In the 1980s and 90s the Japanese were just turning out engineering and doing great stuff.
How did they lose their way? Why have these companies not been more innovative? Japan has actually had a hard time changing, but the country can be in very good shape. The thing I spent the most time on is Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. I havent read Science Fiction much in the last decade, which is kind of crazy because I used to read it massively. This terrible thing happens that has to do with the moon breaking apart.
The planet is going to undergo this meteoric bombardment for like, five thousand years. It makes you think about a lot of things. You know, if the world is going to end in two years, whos going to come to work? Should kids go to school? Its a really good book. So those are some of the books Id recommend this summer.
I hope you find something you like..
The work hes done on that is so intriguing. He seems to be the first guy whos really looked into certain weird things about the mitochondria. He puts forward all sorts of ideas about different diseases that really bare looking into. Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind, by Yuval Noah Harari.
Sapiens is really good and theres a lot of things about early human history that most people havent been exposed to. And hes good and succinct on that. And then he goes off in many directions like, are we happier than weve ever been? And what about robots? Its got the broad frame work. Its a great book.
How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg. This book has tons of good stuff in it for a non-mathematician. He updates you about the world of math, what advances have taken place. His enthusiasm comes across.
In math, if you dont kind of practice it, you get this attrition of your mathematical thinking. The Power to Compete by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani. To me Japan is fascinating. In the 1980s and 90s the Japanese were just turning out engineering and doing great stuff.
How did they lose their way? Why have these companies not been more innovative? Japan has actually had a hard time changing, but the country can be in very good shape. The thing I spent the most time on is Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. I havent read Science Fiction much in the last decade, which is kind of crazy because I used to read it massively. This terrible thing happens that has to do with the moon breaking apart.
The planet is going to undergo this meteoric bombardment for like, five thousand years. It makes you think about a lot of things. You know, if the world is going to end in two years, whos going to come to work? Should kids go to school? Its a really good book. So those are some of the books Id recommend this summer.
I hope you find something you like..
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