Dispatches from the Web
Here are some interesting finds from my reading odyssey from last week: An important attempt to link thermodynamics to quantum mechanics. So the reason why your desk or home gets more disorganized with every passing second may be quantum entangelment - or as Einstein liked to call it spooky action at distance. Link: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source/ H.G Wells interviews Stalin and discusses different approaches to revolutionary politics. Stalin is quite eloquent I have to admit. Link: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/h-g-wells-it-seems-me-i-am-more-left-you-mr-stalin How people who love books took extraordinary steps to save precolonial Africa's written heritage from Jihadists. Link: http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/africa/mali/Bonfire-of-the-Humanities.html From the previous article I found two new musical genres that literally blew my mind. First is electric guitar rocki...