I understand what this book stems from. Carlo Rovelli is one of the foremost theoretical physicists of our time, pun intended. As a co-creator of the loop quantum gravity theory, his work comes close to giving us a complete, unified understanding of the physical world. Being privy to this, his human intellect compels him to share this vision with others. If you have an understanding that has given you peace from the daily suffering and ignorance, but you see others around you continue to suffer, metaphorically or literally, you want to shout the truth to them from the rooftops. This book, I suspect, is his shouting. Luckily, Rovelli is one of the not too many, who has writing and explanatory powers to complement his command of formulae.
Slavisa Pajkic can turn his body into a conductor, an insulator, a heater or an accumulator of electricity, depending on what he wants to be. He has set a Guinness World Record by allowing enough electricity to pass through his body for 1 minute 37 seconds to heat water to boiling point (97 degrees Celsius).
Valede kataloog was an entertaining read. Not entertaining in any conventional sense of the word. It's just that reading the words, written by someone you have spent long evenings drinking tea with, have prayed and meditated together with, it is impossible not to hear him speak the words. Even morbid words take on a certain playful quality when you hear Tõnu's voice speaking them. Like he means them, and he doesn't.
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Pierre Bayard
A psychoanalyst and a professor of French literature at the University of Paris, Bayard advances several types of non-reading and makes the case, that non-reading is far more common than reading and that in order to talk about a book there is no need of having read it. The latter third of the book proposes strategies for discussing books you haven't read.
