July 2011
Narrow Mental Content
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-narrow/
Narrow mental content is a kind of mental content that does not depend on an individual’s environment. Narrow content contrasts with “broad” or “wide” content, which depends on features of the individual’s environment as well as on features of the individual. It is controversial whether there is any such thing as narrow content....
The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the...
http://www.amazon.com/Shape-Inner-Space-Universes-Dimensions/dp/0465020232/ref=pd_sim_b_90
AUTHORS’ STATEMENT by SHING-TUNG YAU and STEVE NADIS There is a certain irony running through this book that one of the smallest things you can possibly imagine—six-dimensional geometric spaces that may be more than a trillion times smaller than an electron—could, nevertheless, be one...
June 2011
The Mathematics of Life, Ian Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Life-Ian-Stewart/dp/0465022383/ref=pd_sim_b_8
Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years, however, mathematicians have proven that they hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our world—and ourselves.
In The Mathematics of Life, Ian Stewart...
Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the...
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Hating-Mathematics-Challenging-Mathematical/dp/0691142475/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309465820&sr=1-1
Hayley Westenra ~ Melancholy Interlude ~ With...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsxT1069bYw&feature=autoplay&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdHluC_1GpWyGbpADs1ngDo&index=84&playnext=5
Study: Money Isn't Everything — But Status Is!
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1974718,00.html
The Beatles sang that money can’t buy you love. But what about happiness? Research consistently shows that the more money people have, the more likely they are to report being satisfied with their lives.
And that makes sense: money buys you things that make life easier and more satisfying; the easier your life, the happier you...
Tony Robbins Kissed My Hand and I Liked It
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2005847,00.html
Do We Need $75,000 a Year to Be Happy?
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2016291,00.html
Health and Happiness: Happiness is difficult to...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1631176,00.html
The Optimism Bias
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2074067,00.html
http://www.amazon.com/Optimism-Bias-Irrationally-Positive-Brain/dp/0307378489/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1309461754&sr=8-1
From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we...
What is particularly interesting about The...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/the-secret-longevity-its-about-character-not-just-calis
Strong Social Ties - People who had larger social...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/the-secret-longevity-its-about-character-not-just-calis
The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for...
http://www.amazon.com/Longevity-Project-Surprising-Discoveries-Eight-Decade/dp/1594630755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309460755&sr=8-1
This landmark study—which Dr. Andrew Weil calls “a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions”—upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age. We have been told that the key to longevity involves...
The dos and don'ts in trying to change your...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/how-create-real-change-in-your-relationship
http://spr.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/11/25/0265407510388586.full.pdf+html
http://spr.sagepub.com/site/podcast/Relationship_Matters_Podcast_Number_05.mp3
Atlas Shrugged, "Pride is the recognition of the...
The transition to urban life is everywhere...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/moving-too-little-or-eating-too-much
There's a man sitting at a bar complaining about...
Married, With Infidelities
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...
There are second acts, but not all of them are...
http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2011/06/30/there-are-second-acts-but-%E2%80%A6/
Biking and rowing may get your heart racing, but a...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/mind-your-body-walk-way
Get Moving! You've heard it: Exercise is...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving
In probability theory and applications, Bayes'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/?pa=reviews&sa=viewBook&bookId=71922#
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Writing-Mathematics-2010/dp/0691148414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309438860&sr=8-1
This anthology brings together the year’s finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, The Best Writing...
Andre Weil
http://www.ams.org/notices/199904/rev-varadarajan.pdf
THE THEORY THAT WOULD NOT DIE: How Bayes’ Rule...
http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-05/ae/29686089_1_spam-21st-century-common-sense
What’s the plural of “statistician’’? A quarrel.
It’s a minor but telling point that having read Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s “The Theory That Would Not Die’’ I find jokes like this kind of funny. McGrayne’s book transforms what many would consider to be a history of boredom — the philosophical and historical...
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” --Warren...
The Quants
http://www.ams.org/notices/201105/rtx110500699p.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizzes-Conquered-Street-Destroyed/dp/0307453383/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309434399&sr=8-1
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” —Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with...
An Introduction to the Langlands Program
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Langlands-Program-Joseph-Bernstein/dp/0817632115/ref=pd_sim_b_26
This book presents a broad, user-friendly introduction to the Langlands program, that is, the theory of automorphic forms and its connection with the theory of L-functions and other fields of mathematics. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on a particular topic devoted to special cases of the...
Recountings: Conversations with MIT Mathematicians
http://www.amazon.com/Recountings-Conversations-Mathematicians-Joel-Segel/dp/1568817134/ref=pd_sim_b_28
Though never in the eye of popular culture, these men kept society advancing with their minds. Recountings: Conversations with MIT Mathematicians is a collection of interviews and anecdotes fiom the geniuses of MIT who have pursued mathematics as their life s careers and obsessions. These...
Courant
http://www.amazon.com/Courant-Constance-Reid/dp/0387946705/ref=pd_sim_b_1
“…a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity…this is one of the still too rare occasions in which mathematicians are shown as frail, flesh-and-blood creatures…a very worthwhile book.” -CHOICE
Hilbert
http://www.amazon.com/Hilbert-Constance-Reid/dp/0387946748/ref=pd_sim_b_20
“It presents a sensitive portrait of a great human being. It describes accurately and intelligibly on a nontechnical level the world of mathematical ideas in which Hilbert created his masterpieces. And it illuminates the background of German social history against which the drama of Hilberts life was played....
Bourbaki, Atiyah
http://www.ams.org/notices/200709/tx070901150p.pdf
Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians
http://www.amazon.com/Bourbaki-Society-Mathematicians-Maurice-Mashaal/dp/0821839675/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1309432183&sr=8-3
The name Bourbaki is known to every mathematician. Many also know something of the origins of Bourbaki, yet few know the full story. In 1935, a small group of young...
The mathematics of network control--from cell...
http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201105-12_Nature-TamingComplexity/201105-12_Nature-paperwcover.pdf
Taming Complexity
http://www.ams.org/news/math-in-the-media/math-in-the-media
HISTORIES OF SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/thinking-about-looking
I highly recommend Histories of Scientific Observation, not only to historians of science, who have an obvious stake in its groundbreaking contents, but also to scientists curious about the role that practices such as observation and experiment play in their own research. There is much here to interest readers who have some...
Despite Fears, Owning Home Retains Allure, Poll...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/business/30poll.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
New Investment Strategy: Preparing for End Times
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/a-new-investment-strategy-preparing-for-end-times/?pagemode=print
Are Religion and Marriage Indivisible?
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/29/are-religion-and-marriage-indivisible?hp
Argument, Truth and the Social Side of Reasoning
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/argument-truth-and-the-social-side-of-reasoning/?hp
Reasoning is most problematic when carried out by isolated individuals and most effective when carried out in social groups.
Rational agreement, properly arrived at, is the best possible justification of a claim to truth.
The key point is that justification — and therefore knowledge of the ...
Democracy’s Cradle, Rocking the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/opinion/30mazower.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Common Sense and Sensibility, By LINDA GREENHOUSE
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/common-sense-and-sensibility/?hp
The Cloud Darkens
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/opinion/30thu1.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to...
http://www.amazon.com/New-Science-Mind-Extended-Phenomenology/dp/0262014556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309415439&sr=1-1
There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively “in the head.” Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind....
The Variety of Movie Experience, July 14, 2011,...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/variety-movie-experience/?pagination=false&printpage=true
The Tree of Life Movie Trailer Official
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0
