décembre 2009

Stonier's Information theory trilogy

3 books with appealing titles. A fabulous, vertiginous reading. To make a long story short, the most obvious constituent of the universe is the one we cannot measure, escaping from direct observation, but present in everything. Read more »

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Magdalena Kožená

One of my favourite mezzo. Her interpretation of Rinaldo's "Lascia ch'io pianga" is probably unsurpassable. Read more »

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Rinaldo (excerpt)
Related information: 
'Ah! mio cor' Handel: Arias (Média)

Peter Senge

Peter Michael Senge is an American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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How the Mind Works

he first book I read from Steven Pinker. Breathtaking, an ode to a extraordinary computing machine, the Brain.

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The Blank Slate

Steve Pinker is an extraordinary scientist and writter. His books are thick and printed in small letters, but they do not hurt: the reading is always captivating and the writting is beautiful. I read "How the Mind Works" a couple of years ago,  Read more »

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