Rumi Nations

The annual question from Edge.org: what should we be worried about? A remarkable essay by Eugene Wigner on the The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences . A look back at Aaron Schwartz's life in The New Yorker . Here's the detailed story of the discovery of the Higgs boson in The New York Times by the renowned science writer Dennis Overbye . You can't miss this  Esquire  interview with the Navy SEAL who actually shot bin Laden . This is a  fascinating article  about the future by Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Articles about the Iraq war in the New Yorker . Engines of our Ingenuity —    a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Jonah Lehrer articles from the New Yorker . Jonah Lehrer article about memory in Wired . An article about the human urge for exploration from the National Geographic . Are you living in a computer simulation?

Here are a variety of articles I have read recently or was pending to be read ... they just keep accumulating on 50 browser tabs. Ever growing, growing, growing ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/13/eva-rausing-story-white-noise-age?newsfeed=true http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Goddamn-Particle http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rachel-maddows-quiet-war-20120627?page=2 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/health/new-frontiers-of-cancer-treatment-bring-breathtaking-swings.html?_r=4 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-lives-of-teenagers-online-a-full-report-from-business-insider-2012-7?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sai#-3 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/health/research/rare-gene-mutation-is-found-to-stave-off-alzheimers.html?_r=3&hpw http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/opinion/urry-sally-ride/index.html http://www.n...