Tricked by Our Brain: The Finance Trap
ChatGPT: Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps This lecture by Professor Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge University) explores the psychological traps that cause individuals to make poor financial decisions. Drawing from behavioral finance, it outlines how belief and preference biases distort our judgment and leave us vulnerable to exploitation by financial professionals. […]
Fragments Reborn: The Hidden Life of Lost Music
ChatGPT: Reconstructing Lost Music: The Art and Science of Bringing the Past to Life This Gresham College lecture by Professor David J. Rau explores the challenges and methodologies involved in reconstructing lost or fragmentary musical works. He discusses historical case studies, modern technologies, and philosophical questions about authenticity and creativity in reconstructing music from incomplete […]
The Visionary Who Wired the World
ChatGPT: The Dream Machine The Dream Machine, by M. Mitchell Waldrop, chronicles the life of computing pioneer J.C.R. Licklider and how his vision of interactive computing laid the foundations of the modern digital world, including the internet, personal computing, and artificial intelligence. The book also serves as a sweeping history of computing from WWII to […]
Your Memory Is a Story, Not a File
ChatGPT: Why We Remember 📘 Introduction Charan Ranganath, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist, wrote Why We Remember to demystify memory and show how we can better harness its power. He integrates decades of research into a readable, story-rich guide that goes far beyond a dry science lesson. The book explains why memory is essential to our […]
A Soundtrack for the Void
ChatGPT: The Dark Side of the Moon: An Album Beyond Its Time and the Scholarly Obsession with Its Meaning Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, released in 1973, occupies a singular position in the history of popular music, not simply because it sold over 45 million copies but because it has been relentlessly […]
When Infinity Meets Medicine
ChatGPT: Bowling Pins, Triangular Numbers, and the Birth of Calculus: A Journey to Seeing Inside the Human Body In the most unassuming places—like a bowling alley—lie the seeds of ideas that eventually transform civilization. The article Bowling for Nobels traces an unlikely lineage: a childhood fascination with how bowling pins are arranged, through centuries of […]
Why Coincidences Happen: A Scientific Adventure
ChatGPT: The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science This book, authored by geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry, is a witty and accessible exploration of how science and math can help us understand the universe, humanity, and ourselves. Blending history, humor, and deep insights, it covers topics from the […]
Tiny Joys, Big Shifts
ChatGPT: 🌈 Deep Dive Summary: The Joy Reset by Marychtgerine McDonald A rich, heartfelt manual for rediscovering joy, The Joy Reset proposes a practical, six-week guided journey to reclaim happiness from within. It speaks directly to readers feeling drained by constant demands, digital distractions, or emotional numbness, offering both reflection and daily tools to re-center […]
Travels with “Monday “(24)
J, One of the things striking me most in Japan is how ordinary people taking great care to make their homes beautiful. No matter walking in small towns or big cities, I always find some lovely plants in small pots outside the door, or by the fence, all in such limited space, or no space […]
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J, Garden visiting is on the top of my list of travel plans. To me—an atheist, a garden is what the heaven might be, nature in its most beautiful micro state, but only man-made.Not a fan of Italian or French gardens with rigidly constructed layout; but more natural looking of English or Japanese gardens. I […]