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Books

2025-05-01T08:30:32Z

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== Books to Buy ==

* Alpha and Omega - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341417
* the Whole is Simpler than its Parts - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341158
* Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories
* The Flat Mind
* On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
* Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
* Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
* A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)
* How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
* Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
* Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
* The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
* Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
* Consolations - David Whyte

== Books to Read ==

* Reading to Learn - William Zinger
* Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
* A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton

== Currently Reading ==

* [[Atomic Habits]] - James Clear
* [[Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott]]- Sabine Vöhringer

== Books Read ==

=== 2025 (week 17) ===

* 16. [[The Experience Machine]] - Andy Clark
* 15. [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath
* 14. [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read)
* 13. [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 12. [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett
* 11. [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin
* 10.[[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 9. [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]]
* 8. [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter
* 7. [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett
* 6. [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco
* 5. [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux
* 4. [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett
* 3. [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read)
* 2. [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco
* 1. [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque

=== 2024 ===

* The Plot - Will Eisner
* The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
* The Nonjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo
* When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (reread)
* The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities - Fauconnier and Turner
* The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil
* Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
* Le Ton Beau de…
* The Origins of Creativity - Edward O Wilson
* Psychonauts -
* The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
* In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel
* Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson
* Les Effinger - Gabriele Target
* Triad - Tom Keve
* Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig
* The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich
* How Language Works - David Crystal
* The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf
* [[The Song of the Cell]] - Siddhartha Mukherjee
* [[Gödel, Escher, Bach]] - Douglas Hofstadter
* [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett

[[Category:Books]]

Films

2025-04-30T20:11:13Z

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== Films to Watch ==

* Early mad maxes
* Joule of the Nile
* the man with two brains
* wet hot American summer
* Psycho Therapy - Steve Buscemi is a serial killer who wants to advise an author, but ends up playing a marriage counselor.
* Witness
* Empire of the Sun
* Early Steve Martin
* A Complete Unknown
* Mickey 17
* la La Land -
* The Phoenician Scheme - new Wes Anderson comedy espionage thriller
* Thelma - Grandma fights con artists
* Hundreds of Beavers - crazy live action cartoon
* Kinds of Kindness
* 2001
* The Elephant Man
* The Fabulous Baker Boys
* Network

== Films Watched ==
=== 2025 ===
* 23. Romancing the Stone
* Easter Film Festival
** 22. Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
** 21. Witness
** 20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (rewatch)
** 19. Conclave
** 18. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
** 17. Lincoln
** 16. Being John Malkovitch (rewatch)
** 15. AI (rewatch)
** 14. The Royal Tenenbaums (rewatch)
** 13. Total Recall 1990 (rewatch)
** 12. In the Line of Fire (rewatch)
* 11. Flow
* 10. Juror No. 2
* 9. The Savage Robot
* 8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (rewatch)
* 7. Dead Poet's Society
* 6. Notting Hill (rewatch)
* 5. My Neighbor Totoro (rewatch)
* 4. Kiki’s Delivery Service (rewatch)
* 3. Dr Strangelove (rewatch)
* 2. Dune 2
* 1. Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me (rewatch)

=== 2024 and Earlier ===
* The Big Lebowski
* The Holiday
* Love Actually
* Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
* The Mask
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Films

2025-04-30T20:09:41Z

2A01:CB00:4CA:C200:D599:106C:5CA8:CE06: /* 2025 */

== Films to Watch ==
* Psycho Therapy - Steve Buscemi is a serial killer who wants to advise an author, but ends up playing a marriage counselor.
* Witness
* Empire of the Sun
* Early Steve Martin
* A Complete Unknown
* Mickey 17
* la La Land -
* The Phoenician Scheme - new Wes Anderson comedy espionage thriller
* Thelma - Grandma fights con artists
* Hundreds of Beavers - crazy live action cartoon
* Kinds of Kindness
* 2001
* The Elephant Man
* The Fabulous Baker Boys
* Network

== Films Watched ==
=== 2025 ===
* 23. Romancing the Stone
* Easter Film Festival
** 22. Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
** 21. Witness
** 20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (rewatch)
** 19. Conclave
** 18. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
** 17. Lincoln
** 16. Being John Malkovitch (rewatch)
** 15. AI (rewatch)
** 14. The Royal Tenenbaums (rewatch)
** 13. Total Recall 1990 (rewatch)
** 12. In the Line of Fire (rewatch)
* 11. Flow
* 10. Juror No. 2
* 9. The Savage Robot
* 8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (rewatch)
* 7. Dead Poet's Society
* 6. Notting Hill (rewatch)
* 5. My Neighbor Totoro (rewatch)
* 4. Kiki’s Delivery Service (rewatch)
* 3. Dr Strangelove (rewatch)
* 2. Dune 2
* 1. Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me (rewatch)

=== 2024 and Earlier ===
* The Big Lebowski
* The Holiday
* Love Actually
* Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
* The Mask
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