Miscellanea
- Tell me, why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?
- Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth.
- Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?
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Good books
D. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, I am a strange loop
B. Mandelbrot - The (mis)behaviour of markets : a fractal view of risk, ruin, and reward
L. Russo - La rivoluzione dimenticata
D. H. Meadows et al. - The limits to Growth
J. Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
D. Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow
S. Pinker - Enlightenment Now
L. L. Cavalli-Sforza - The history and geography of human genes, Gènes, peuples et langues: une histoire de la diversité humaine
C. M . Cipolla - Allegro (ma non troppo)
R. P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
J. Marias - Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí
F. Dürrenmatt - Das Sterben der Pythia
J. Saramago - História do Cerco de Lisboa
R. Carver - What we talk about when we talk about love
W. H. Auden - Shorts