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Sir Francis Bacon He once said, “Some books must be tasted, some must be swallowed, and some must be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others are to be read, but not with curiosity, and a few are to be read in their entirety, and with diligence and attention.
Many popular science books, however, should not only be read with "diligence and attention," but with devotion, cas if you tried to memorize each of its passages (It wouldn't even hurt to take notes of the new ideas that arise in our minds). Because if the book is interesting, it can allow us to reach ends of knowledge that we thought were impossible.
Advantages
There are matters that require reading books of three or four hundred pages. Even those books, which have been written for months or years, which are corrected and polished line by line, usually make calls to an extensive bibliography made up of other books or articles that, in turn, have also been written in the same way.
They are popular science books. And we should read them often. If possible, one a week.
While about a book a week may seem overwhelming, it's probably doable even for the busiest people. The writer Stephanie Huston He says that thinking he didn't have enough time turned out to be a lame excuse. One day he set the goal of reading 50 books in a year, and to do so he only had to divert a little of his wasted time with his mobile phone, or take advantage of the time on trains, during lunch breaks or while waiting in the supermarket line.
Let's think that a typical essay has 50,000 words and that we can read between 200 and 400 words per minute. That means we can read 100 essays in just over 200 hours a year.. A ridiculous figure if we compare it with the time we spend on social networks (600) or on television (2000).
It may also be that the book chosen does not meet our expectations. Then we can proceed as explained Peter Bregman, that This is how he reads one essay a week having a busy life:
Read the title and anywhere from the first paragraphs to the first pages of the chapter to discover how the author is using this chapter and where it fits into the book's argument. Then review the headings and subheadings (if any) to get an idea of the flow. Read the first sentence of each paragraph and the last. If you understand the meaning, move on. Otherwise, you may want to read the entire paragraph. Once you have understood the chapter, you may be able to flip through entire pages as the plot may be clear to you and may also be repeated.
Some recommendations
Reading a book that pushes you to contemplate the horizon of human knowledge also allows you to discover how sterile it often is to fraternize with some people. And one ends up evoking this sensation described by Schopenhauer in On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason: «Sometimes I talk to men like a child with his dolls; Even knowing that dolls cannot understand, through pleasant methodical self-deception the joy of communication is achieved.
If you want to start with some really powerful ones, the kind that make you love your solitude, then some of the books that I list below are the ones that have changed the coordinates of my mind the most. Those that have influenced me the most intellectually, but also emotionally. Those who have allowed me to see the world with greater perspective. Also those who have shown me, in an almost physical way, how complex everything is and how little I knew.
They are books that have functioned almost like compasses in the middle of the desert, microscopes to see the smallest things, telescopes to see the furthest things.
1. Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
We are facing a 984-page tome. But each of its pages is worth its weight in gold. I think this is the book with the most ideas that one should print on a T-shirt per square centimeter that I have ever read.
Behave: The biology behind our best and worst comps (ESSAY)
2. Consilience: the unity of knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson
There is a chapter dedicated to explaining in 30 pages how science works and why it is the most effective intellectual tool we know that almost made me cry with emotion.
Consilience: the unity of knowledge (Essay)
3. Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky
The paradigmatic example of this new generation of people who are beginning to spend more time on YouTube and less on television is Wikipedia. A free, collaborative encyclopedia that does not pay its collaborators, which has become a tough competitor to the Encyclopedia Britannica. The most exciting thing is that to write Wikipedia, only 1 % of the hours American viewers spend watching television in a year. That is to say: with the time that American viewers spend in front of the television during a year, thousands of Wikipedias, or equivalents, could be conceived.
Cognitive surplus: Creativity and generosity in the connected age (No collection)
4. Abundance, by Peter H Diamandis
Whether or not you share the enthusiasm of the main message, it is impossible not to be contaminated by the technological optimism that the book gives off, and above all to be fascinated by the number of characters in the world who are truly changing the lives of not just thousands, but millions of people. .
Abundance. The Future Is Better Than You Think
5. The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
Basically, we are faced with an artifact to dissolve three intertwined dogmas: the "blank slate" (the mind has no innate characteristics), the "noble savage" (the person is born good and society corrupts him) and the "ghost in the machine." (we all have a soul that makes decisions without depending on biology).
The blank slate: The modern denial of human nature (Contexts)
6. Beyond intellectual impostures, by Alan Sokal
Epistemology is a philosophically dry topic, it takes years of reading to understand all its aspects, but this book is an excellent summary of all its approaches.
Beyond intellectual impostures: Science, philosophy and culture (Transitions)
Do you want more recommendations? Below, 30 books added to those already mentioned to superfeed your mind (prize for those who have read them all, and encouragement for those who are willing to read them all... you will not regret it):
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The 36 best science books to change the way you see the world
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United Arab Emirates (USA) plans to land unmanned spacecraft on the Moon in 2024. including an exploration rover. Recently, the US launched a probe into Mars orbit, so We must not underestimate their objectives.
Israel also tried it in 2019, without success, so if the US succeeded it would become the fourth country to do so, after the United States, the Soviet Union and China.
The mission
The lunar rover will be called "Rashid", in honor of one of the founders of the United Arab Emirates. The explorer will be designed and built in the United Arab Emirates by an Emirati 100% team of engineers, experts and researchers.
A team of Emirati engineers, researchers and experts from the MBRSC is working to complete the Lunar Rover design by 2021. The rover will be manufactured in 2022, while preliminary experiments and testing of the prototype are expected to begin in 2023. The Center aims to launch the Lunar Rover by 2024, setting another record in its growing list of achievements in the space sector.
The Emirati lunar rover will land on an area of the Moon's surface that has not been explored by any of the previous lunar exploration missions. The Lunar Rover will be equipped with cutting-edge technology which includes a 3D camera, an advanced motion system, sensors, a communication system and will be powered by solar panels.
The explorer will also include an advanced movement system to improve the efficiency of wheel movement of the Lunar Rover on the Moon.
The mission will consist of a series of measurements and tests that will expand human understanding of lunar plasma, photoelectrons and dust particles located on the illuminated part of the lunar surface.
A variety of materials will also be tested and their interaction with the Moon studied.
The Moon is considered an ideal platform for testing new technologies and equipment that can be used in future space exploration missions, including Mars. Landing on the Moon also allows for long-term exposure of sensors and other technologies to the space environment.
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In 2024, a fourth country wants to explore the Moon: United Arab Emirates
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Researchers at Cornell University They have analyzed 38 million articles about the coronavirus pandemic in English-language media around the world.
Mentions to the president donald trump They accounted for nearly 38% of overall misinformation, making the president the largest driver of pandemic-related falsehoods.
Fake News
Researchers sought to identify all mentions of misinformation in 'mainstream media'. They included fact-checking articles that corrected misinformation in their total count.
The study identified 11 topics of misinformation, including several conspiracy theories, such as one that emerged in January suggesting the pandemic was manufactured by Democrats to coincide with Trump's impeachment, and another that sought to trace the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, to people who ate soup of bat.
But by far the most prevalent topic of misinformation was 'miracle cures', including Trump's promotion of anti-malaria drugs and disinfectants as potential treatments for Covid-19. That represented more misinformation than the other 10 topics combined.
For example, on April 24, a day after Trump floated the idea that disinfectants and ultraviolet light could treat Covid-19, there were more than 30,000 items in the 'miracle cures' category, compared to less than 10,000 just days before. According to the study researchers, this growth of misinformation was due to Trump.
The Cornell Alliance for Science, which led the study, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using science to improve food security and environmental sustainability. One of its goals is to promote science-based decision making. With Trump, it seems, they are going to have a lot of work ahead of them.
The study also found that conspiracy theories, when grouped together, accounted for 46 % of mentions of misinformation.
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The “most important factor” of misinformation in English about the coronavirus is Donald Trump
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It doesn't matter that the planet is increasingly in environmental danger, or that we are already riding the second wave of a global pandemic that could condemn us to years or decades of poverty, people continue to have children. So we have to wonder if having children really provides enough happiness to ignore those details.
The answer is ambiguous: at first, according to this study suggests, Yeah. Having children is like treating yourself to any big whim: a trip, a new car, etc. However, there are some considerations to keep in mind: If there are financial problems, the child does not bring more happiness.
The happiness of the first years
If there are financial difficulties associated with the children, having them does not increase parents' happiness significantly. Furthermore, even if it does, once the children are over ten years old, the added happiness effect recedes a little, especially in adolescence: we do not know if because the children become more unbearable or because the novelty effect is left behind. .
In the study, published in Journal of Population Economics, also point out that not all children are equal, and stepchildren They tend to have a more negative correlation than the children of the current relationship.
To carry out the study, international data was taken into account, including more than one million observations on Europeans during 11 years of Eurobarometer surveys.
Other studies suggest that having children does not necessarily increase net happiness; Even, on average, having children means being less happy than not having them because we do not control all the problems that may arise, as explained Gary Marcus in his book Kluge:
Although the climaxes (“Daddy, I love you”) can be spectacular, on a day-to-day basis, most of the time spent caring for children is simply work. In “objective” studies that ask subjects about their level of happiness at random times, childcare (a task with a clear adaptive advantage) oscillates somewhere between housework and television, well below sex and cinema. Luckily, from a species perpetuation perspective, people tend to remember (intermittent) climaxes better than the drudgery of daily diapers and chauffeur service.
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Having children only increases your happiness if you can pay the bills (and up to 10 years of age).
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Although cognitive-behavioral therapy is more effective, yoga should not be underestimated as a complementary tool for the treatment of generalized anxiety.
Además, el cerebro parece procesar el estímulo mediante redes neuronales distintas.
Computer scientists are trying to build an artificial intelligence system that can win a gold medal in the world's most important mathematical competition.
Hallan placas amiloides y proteínas tau en el hipocampo y el tronco encefálico de personas con apnea obstructiva del sueño.
Las alteraciones puntuales identificadas modifican los receptores nicotínicos de las neuronas.