Ash Jogalekar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ash Jogalekar

@WiringTheBrain Definitely Robin Williams's Boston Common monologue in "Good Will Hunting".

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@michael_nielsen I’ve been reading James Scott’s “Black Snow”, about the horrific March 9, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. In many ways this lay the (im)moral groundwork for the bomb. Worth reading.

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@jason_pontin If you read Eric Berger's "Liftoff" you will see that he learnt on the job, had good insights, built a spirit of camaraderie at Space X. The challenges were mainly technical. Nothing like that exists at Twitter, and he is approaching it from a fundamentally misguided angle.

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Very interesting assessment by veteran physicist and presidential advisor Wolfgang Panofsky on science literacy of different presidents: Eisenhower was the best and most open, Johnson and George W Bush were uncommunicative, Carter overestimated, Clinton wasn’t a good listener. https://t.co/GROm2CSPPH

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A work of art. Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid: The First Six Books with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols https://t.co/ouzhJbfyYq

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Famous putdowns in science 5: Freeman Dyson reviewing Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" in 2002: “There’s a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories. Wolfram is unusual in that he’s doing this in his 40s.”

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Alan Lightman's new book about science and spirituality, "The Transcendent Brain", begins with a powerful, moving encounter with a pair of newly flighted juvenile ospreys. https://t.co/V0wvAHbRJO

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@Pacificklaus Einstein was a whole man, both scientist and otherwise. Dennis Overbye wrote an entire book about his relationship with Mileva titled "Einstein in Love" which is very good.

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Looking forward to reading two new natural history books: Ed Yong’s “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us” and Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us” https://a.co/d/3FMxBq8

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Another thread from 2019 on Hans Bethe, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a personal hero of mine. Few scientists in history have contributed so importantly to so many fields of their discipline and have also been role models as human beings. https://t.co/whYPWUHRvB

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