Wednesday, August 15, 2018

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Youtube channels/videos:
  1. Crash course: history of science (see also here),
  2. Crash course: philosophy,
  3. Crash course: engineering,
  4. Crash course: computer science,
  5. Crash course: statistics,
  6. Primitive technology,
  7. “The Mystery of Matter: “OUT OF THIN AIR” (link on youtube),

Articles about history of technology
Our world in data: link

Popular science books: physics
  1. Dreams of a final theory, Steven Weinberg;
  2. The character of physical law, Richard Feynman;

Popular science books: mathematics
  1. The world of mathematics, James R. Newman (amazon link),
  2. Fermat's last theorem, Simon Singh,
  3. What is mathematics, Courant and Robbins,
  4. Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Morris Kline,
  5. Men of Mathematics, E.T. Bell,


Popular science books: other subjects


Books/articles:
  1. George Orwell: Animal Farm,
  2. George Orwell: 1984,
  3. Truth and beauty, S. Chandrasekhar,
  4. Ramchandra Guha's website (with all his articles);
  5. In particular, this article by Ram Guha gives an overview of the community of social sciences in India;
    • for a brief history of history research in India: see here (HISTORY BEYOND MARXISM AND HINDUTVA by Ramachandra Guha (published in The Telegraph, 26th July 2014));
People worth following:
  1. Sam Harris,
  2. Sean Carroll,
  3. Michael Shermer,
Websites/journals etc

  1. http://inference-review.com/
  2. http://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/faqs/
  3. https://quillette.com/about/





Debunking myths:
  1. Adams Ruins Everything (wikipedia article link),
  2. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (link to wikipedia article),

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