The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, by Samuel Arbesman
Two websites to take home : devnothink and mendeley
This book has some historian and sociology hues, but first and foremost it is very analytical. Simply so. The parts I particularly like are phase transition and the discussion of 'nice people do tend to win more Nobel".
The book is fairly interdisciplinary. Synthesis seems to be the trend now
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer"
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
The first ~100 pages are classic. Then the rest goes down as the Second World War entered the book. Vienna around the turn of the century was historical. Mark Twain's activity during the period carried a perspective never seen before. Everybody else seemed a bit psycho or neurotic in certain ways.
I thought more lay-in of philosophy, therefore allowing the book to transcend the gold milieu of the chapters a bit, should make the book more lasting and intellectually adorable.
The first ~100 pages are classic. Then the rest goes down as the Second World War entered the book. Vienna around the turn of the century was historical. Mark Twain's activity during the period carried a perspective never seen before. Everybody else seemed a bit psycho or neurotic in certain ways.
I thought more lay-in of philosophy, therefore allowing the book to transcend the gold milieu of the chapters a bit, should make the book more lasting and intellectually adorable.
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