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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” - Marie Curie [essential note: unless her biography is read, the full weight of these words can’t be understood or misunderstood]
Today, on Marie Curie’s birthday, this first post is dedicated to her spirit of curiosity and love for knowledge.
Reading was not enjoyed at first, but through years of growing interest in various ideas and fields, it has come to be seen as a true source of joy. However, once a book is started, it becomes difficult to put it down until every idea is fully understood. Pages are not turned until each concept is grasped, and lines or chapters are often reread until they are made clear (a habit learned from an old friend who was found to be truly wise)
In that same spirit of curiosity, a selection of favorite books will be shared below, along with others that have inspired new ways of thinking.
Top list:
1) Behave – Robert Sapolsky (+ any of his other works)
2) Any book by Carl Sagan
3) Breaking Through – Katalin Karikó
4) Incerto – Nassim N. Taleb
5) Feynman’s Lectures on Physics (Vol I-III)
6) Any book by Neil deGrasse Tyson
7) The Physics of Climate Change – Lawrence Klaus
8) Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
9) Any book or lecture by Temple Grandin
... for now
🔹 Good read collections in the list:
* Why Do You Care What Other People Think? – Richard Feynman (read)
* Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide – Smithsonian
* The Soul of Genius – Jeffrey Orens (read)
* The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
* The Universe in a Nutshell – Stephen Hawking (reading... long read)
* The Biggest Ideas in the Universe – Sean Carroll
* Any lecture/book by Noam Chomsky (difficult language :/ )
* Guns, Germs, and Steel + Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson) with some contradictory perspectives (read, 2nd reading)
* It’s a Numberful World – Eddie Woo
* The History of Ideas – David Runciman (reading)
* The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt (difficult language :/ )
* Magic, Science, and Religion – Malinowski
* The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
* Careless People – Sarah W.Williams (read and recommend)
* Sabine Hossenfelder (currently only one book obtained)
