Articles/Links I liked.

Just a list of links/articles. Trying to keep it exhaustive but too many links.

• You don’t have to know how to code to make it big in tech
• The Moral Life of Babies – Paul Bloom
• Politicians Really Are Big Babies – Paul Bloom
• The Pleasures of Imagination –  Paul Bloom
• Does Everything Happen for a Reason? – Paul Bloom (A list of other articles by Paul Bloom may be found here)
• The Moral Instinct – Steven Pinker
• Go Take a Hike – Nicholas Kristof
• Is a Hard Life Inherited – Nicholas Kristof
• What is Lost as Handwriting Fades
• Burn after Reading
• If you want your own tech company, forget an MBA – and learn to code instead
• How did Science Come to Speak only English?
• Why Google Glass Broke?
• The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
• The Bengal Famine –  How the British Engineered the worst Genocide
• Why Can’t the World’s greatest minds Solve the Mystery of Consciousness?
• The Secret History of Hypertext
• Did a 14 year old Indian Boy Invent email?
• 300 Awesome Free Things for Entrepreneurs
• Satoshi Nakamoto’s Greatest Creation
• The Web We Have to Save
• The 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New
• 50 Scientists who are changing the world
• Face It, Your Brain is a Computer
• Our Transparent Future – Daniel Dennett and Deb Roy
• Erasmus: Sometimes a Spin Doctor is Right – Daniel Dennett
• Daniel Dennett Present Seven Tools for Critical Thinking
• Ethics and the Left – Peter Singer
• Peter Singer and Eugenics
• A hard problem for soft brains: Is there a Hard Problem?
• Algorithms of the Mind
• DNA is Multibillion-Year Old Software
• Physicists are Philosophers, too.
• Is There Enough Meat for Everyone? –  Bill Gates
• Stephen Hawking’s life is a triumph of Intellect over adversity
• Lawrence Krauss’ Response and Perspective
• No, Astrobiology has not made the case for God – Lawrence Krauss
• The Big Unanswered Questions – Lawrence Krauss
• Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
• How The New York Times Works
• 25 Books Billionaire Charlie Munger thinks Everyone Should Read
• Secrets of Creative Brains
• Neil Tyson vs Jerry Coyne
• Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Books
• The Universe according to Nietzsche
• Ayn Rand’s libertarian “Groundhog Day”: Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren’t free enough
• What would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu?
• Genetic Study Reveals Origin of India’s Caste System
• What DNA Testing Reveals about India’s Caste System
• The God Project: Hinduism as Open Source Faith
• Can Sam Harris Wake Us Up? – Deepak Chopra
• Life is Quantum
• James Watson Throws a Fit
• Groundbreaking Idea of Life’s Origin
• The Origins of The Shiite-Sunni split
• Why Do So Many Have Troubles in Believing Evolution?
• The Creativity Myth
• The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See
• Interstellar Science – Review of Science in Interstellar Movie
• Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying in Rage’ – Story of Vladimir Komarov
• Yes, I Found Einstein’s Brain
• How a movie changed one man’s vision forever
• The End of Creativity
• Policy: Fee Indian Science
• My Own Life : Oliver Sacks on Learning He has Terminal Cancer – Oliver Sacks
• My Periodic Table –  Oliver Sacks
• Face-Blind – Oliver Sacks
• The Catastrophe – Oliver Sacks
• Ninth Avenue Reverie – Oliver Sacks
• Night of the Ginkgo – Oliver Sacks
• The Man Who Could be Anyone – Oliver Sacks
• Brilliant Light – Oliver Sacks
• Altered States – Oliver Sacks
• Hunting Horsetails – Oliver Sacks
• A Man of Letters – Oliver Sacks
• Clupeophilia – Oliver Sacks
• The Abyss – Oliver Sacks
• A Bolt from the Blue – Oliver Sacks (For more of him, check here.)
• Seven Ways to Appear More Intelligent than Other People
• Can We Survive Technology? –  John von Neumann
• The Mathematician : Part 1. Part 2. – John von Neumann
• A Designer Universe? – Steven Weinberg
• The Crisis of Big Science – Steven Weinberg
• Islam and Science – Concordance or Conflict? – Abdus Salam
• Manifold Destiny – Sylvia Nasar (about Grigori Perelman)
• How Perelman Solved One of Maths Greatest Mystery
• Encounter with the Infinite – About Ramanujan
• Life and Works of Mathemagician Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Who Was Ramanujan? – Stephen Wolfram
• A Beautiful Mind – About Nash, by Sylvia Nasar
• The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate – About Nash, by Sylvia Nasar
• Nature : John Nash Special
• A Country Known Only by Name (About Alexander Grothendieck)
• Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, dies at 86
• A country of which nothing is known but the name Grothendieck and ‘motives’ (pdf)
• Newton, the Man – John Maynard Keynes
• The Newton/Leibniz Conflict in Context
• Mathematics for alien
• Historical Introduction : A Century of Controversy over the Foundation of Mathematics – Gregory Chaitin
• An Algorithmic God – Gregory Chaitin
• Doing Mathematics Differently – Gregory Chaitin
• Meta math : The Search for Omega – Gregory Chaitin
• The Perfect Language – Gregory Chaitin
• The Two Cultures of Mathematics – Timothy Gowers
• Can anyone be a math genius? –  Marcus du Sautoy
• What is Good Mathematics? – Terence Tao
• Career Advice – Terence Tao
• The Singular Mind of Terry Tao
• For Potential PhD Students – Ravi Vakil
• Advice to a Young Mathematician – By 5 mathematicians
• Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong –  Scott Aaronson
• Who Can Name the Bigger Number? – Scott Aaronson
• On Proof and Progress and in Mathematics –  William P Thurston
• Truth as Value and Duty: Lesson of Mathematics
• Birds and Frogs – Freeman Dyson
• Missed Opportunities – Freeman Dyson
• A Math Puzzle Worthy of Freeman Dyson
• Freeman Dyson – By the Book
• Funny Problems
• Vedic Mathematics
• Why Everyone should know number theory
• How to Survive Math Class
• A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes May Exist – Brian Greene
• In the Beginning – Cosmology
• Outsmarting Einstein – series on General Relativity and Einstein
• The Cult of Genius
• The Undesigned Brain is Hard to Copy
• How to Fall Asleep
• Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
• HIV spreads like computer worms, say scientists
• Why animals don’t get schizophrenia (and people do)
• Out There : Einstein’s Telescope
• Ancient DNA challenges popular theory of Indo-European language arrival in Europe
• For the Mideast, it is still 1979 – Thomas L Friedman
• Toward the neurobiological theory of consciousness – Francis Crick & Christof Koch
• Curious About Quantum Physics? Read These 10 Articles.
• What Emotions Are (and Aren’t)
• Nietzsche on Buddhist Philosophy
• Broken Mirrors : A Theory of Autism – V. Ramchandran
• Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
• Don’t Overthink It – Rebecca Goldstein
• Genome Pioneer: We Have The Dangerous Power to Control Evolution – Interview with Craig Venter
• What’s Wrong with Craig Venter?
• Can We See an Atom?
• The Doomsday Invention – Will AI bring us utopia or destruction?
• Time Bandits – What were Einstein and Godel talking about?
• The Case Against Reality
• Male Sexual Aggression -What Chimps Can Reveal about People
• The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
• Ankit Fadia Revealed
• The Discovery of Electron Spin – S. A. Goudsmit
• Atheism has ancient roots and is not ‘modern invention’,claims new text.
• Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100 – Siobhan Roberts
• Waiting for Godel – Siobhan Roberts
• What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?
• Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin
• I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Twitter
• Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story How Scientists Finally Found Them
• A Most Profound Math Problem
• The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink
• An Exploding Star, a Grain of Sand, and an Origin Story
• The Problem with Facts – Tim Harford
• Information Avoidance – How People Select Their Own Reality
• Why Some Infinities are Bigger than Others
• Einstein’s First Proof
• How to Be a Stoic – The New Yorker
• Quantum Theory by Starlight – The New Yorker
• Why is the speed of light speed of light?
• All in Einstein’s Head
• Interview with Daniel Dennett : ‘I begrudged every hour I have to spend worrying about politics’
• David Hilbert: The Architect of Modern Mathematics
• What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge – Marcus du Sautoy
• Ramanujan, The Man Who Saw the Number Pi in Dreams
• There is More Math in Slugs and Corals than We Can Think of
• Trying to Solve a Bigger Math Problem
• The Axiom of Choice is Wrong
• On Deniability and Duress
• The Rise and Fall and Rise of Logic
• What is Fascism?
• A Complete Beginner Guide to Blockchain
• The Terrorist inside my Husband’s Brain (Robin Williams)
• The Real Mahatma Gandhi – Christopher Hitchens
• Why Socialism? –  Albert Einstein
• Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul
• Daniel Dennett Explain it All – WSJ
• If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You
• The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
• Vonnegut: How to Write with Style
• Directional asymmetry: How does It Develop and How did It Evolve?
• The Power of Concentration
• Andrew Wiles – What does it feels like to do maths
• Infinity and beyond – Why some infinities are bigger than others?
• Gene-Modified Ants shed Light on How Societies are Organized
• The End of the Universe as We Know It –  Lawrence Krauss
• Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised
• Evolution of Transistor: Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain discover foundation of modern electronics in 1947
• When Satyajit Ray Came to Hollywood

Learning type

• Elements of Math – 15 article series on math by Steven Strogatz
• Take it to the Limit – Steven Strogatz
• Me, Myself and Math – Another 6 article series by Steven Strogatz
• What is Code?
• Backyard evolution
• Incarnations : India in 50 Lives – BBC Radio Series
• General Relativity
• The Thousand Years Graveyard
• Theories of Everything, Mapped
• What is Space?
• How Google Search Works – by Google itself
• The Space Doctor’s Big Idea –  Theory of Relativity explained
• The ABCs of Particle Physics – Symmetry Magazine
• The Math Tricks Behind MP3s, JPEGs and Homer Simpson’s Face
• Stephen Hawking’s Lecture on Black Holes
• Theories of Everything, Mapped.

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