Notes of a curious mind

Utopia for Realists sets out the case for three things which I also endorse. Universal basic income A shorter workweek Open borders This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/04/18/utopia-for-realists-by-rutger-bregman/

Quantum mechanics is probably the most fascinating part of physics, and it has faced deep controversies and debates since its origin. It is an interesting subject, even though there are many things that are highly confusing about it. I am just an honest autodidactic who wants to study quantum mechanics from textbooks and eventually to learn enough to think deeply about the foundations of quantum physics. I do not understand all the subtleties about it, but any lack of understanding it can be forgiven, as–to quote Richard Feynman- no one understands quantum mechanics. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/03/10/something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime-by-sean-carroll/

I was really exciting about the subject of this book. I like novels based on the lives of real people and this novel is based on the life of the eccentric American photographer Vivian Maier. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2019/07/03/vivian-by-christina-hesselholdt/

To Be a Man is a collection of ten unusual, emotional and beautifully written short  stories about the paradoxes of what is to be a man and what is to be a  woman between men. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/03/03/to-be-a-man-by-nicole-krauss/

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2020/06/19/eunice-foote-a-fascinating-tale-of-feminism-and-climate-change/

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/01/26/epidemics-and-society-by-frank-m-snowden/

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/02/25/paper-promises-money-debt-and-the-new-world-order-by-philip-coggan/

For most of us fungus is a drug, a pizza topping, or perhaps an  infection. For Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist who worked on underground  fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, fungus is an entire  kingdom of life as diverse as plants and animals. Fungi are indeed the  largest and oldest group of living organisms.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://athenareads.home.blog/2021/02/22/metamorphosis-and-other-stories-by-franz-kafka/