Reading for June – July 2018

Personality : Darwin http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/25/evolution-

charles-darwin

Book review : http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/31/evolution-darwin-

books

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/02/13/passion-of-coen-brothers-hail-caesar/

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/06/18/pope-climate-critics-holy-ignorance/

poems/lit : http://lithub.com/youre-probably-misreading-robert-frosts-most-famous-
poem/

Obituary : http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/02/15/justice-antonin-scalia-
constitution-in-politics/

Shakespeare http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/feb/01/shakespeare-timeline-
playwrights-life

Fatal contradictionsYou can’t be both a populist and a

free-market conservative
Both Theresa May and Donald Trump are sending out mixed messages; they must
disappoint the markets or their supporters
Jan 20th 2017

http://toispeakingtree.blogspot.com/p/archives.html

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/texts [ philosophy and psychology]

Meditations on love: Truly, madly, deeply

Apr 19th 2012, 3:09 from Print edition

A bewitching, beguiling and baffling phenomenon13

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Taxes and art: Is the 1040 the great American novel?

Apr 21st 2011, 4:35 from Democracy in America

Reaching a state of Zen while doing your taxes26

 Thinkers in history: Philosophy as inspiration

Jan 27th 2011, 10:58 from Print edition

The consolations of understanding28

 France's collective exasperation: France's collective exasperation

Oct 28th 2010, 7:10 from Multimedia7

 Letters: On Pakistan, water, bankers, housing, Socrates, global warming, e-readers

Jan 21st 2010, 10:37 from Print edition2

 Socrates in America: Arguing to death

Dec 17th 2009, 11:02 from Print edition

From Socrates, history's quintessential nonconformist, lessons for America today22

 First principles of justice: Rights and wrongs

Sep 24th 2009, 10:53 from Print edition5

 A bibliophile's memoir: Out of the dark

Aug 27th 2009, 10:44 from Print edition1

 Philosophers' deaths: Stuff happens

Jul 10th 2008, 1:30 from Print edition1

 Philosophy and neuroscience

Mar 29th 2007, 9:45 from Letters to the Editor: the inbox0

 Philosophy and neuroscience: Posing the right question

 Mar 22nd 2007, 12:57 from Print edition

The neurology of morality is being explored0

 Brainbox

Dec 19th 2006, 12:22 from Print edition

A history and geography of the brain

Link for philosophy articles on the economist : more than 20 articles in this link:
http://www.economist.com/topics/philosophy

Crusaders : http://www.historytoday.com/jonathan-phillips/crusades-complete-
history

The Plague http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-

catastrophe-ever

Napoleon : http://www.historytoday.com/philip-mansel/napoleon-kingmaker

Shroud of Turin http://www.historytoday.com/charles-freeman/origins-shroud-turin

Why Berlin mattered

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2009/11/why_berlin_
mattered.html

Cold war http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Cold-War.aspx

http://history-world.org/coldwar.htm

French revolution http://history-world.org/french_revolution.htm

American war of independence http://history-world.org/american_revolution.htm

Crimean war http://history-world.org/Crimean%20War.htm

Indian war of independence

The raj at war http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/09/the-raj-at-war-

peoples-history-india-second-world-war-review-conflict-british-rule-yasmin-khan
http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/2044-history-india%E2%80%99s-
freedom-struggle-must-be-rewritten

http://atimes.com/2015/08/august-15-1947-reliving-indias-freedom-at-midnight/

Untold story of 1857

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/24/india.randeepramesh

Truth of colonial history

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/02/britain-colonial-history-
islam-white-mughals

Renaissance http://history-world.org/renaissance.htm

http://history-world.org/Beginning%20And%20Progress%20Of%20The
%20Renaissance.htm

100 years war: http://history-world.org/hundred_years_war.htm

language/ history : https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/10/race-to-save-

hawaii-sign-language

kingdoms of India and world

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/05/21/great-and-beautiful-lost-kingdoms/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/06/under-spell-yoga/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/10/23/greatest-ancient-picture-gallery/

United Nations and its agencies

Coffee : http://www.huffingtonpost.in/sruthijith-kk/an-appeal-for-reform-in-
t_b_9136228.html?ncid=fcbklnkinhpmg00000001

Pollution http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/03/delhis-air-
pollution-causing-health-crisis-so-what-can-be-done
science :

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/25/the-forest-in-your-mouth/

botany http://www.environmentalscience.org/botany

science https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/14/dark-matter-
gravitational-waves-physics-science-albert-einstein

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/gravitational-waves-discovery-
hailed-as-breakthrough-of-the-century

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/12/einstein-theory-of-relativity-
speed-of-light

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/11/what-is-newtons-second-law-
of-motion

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/05/einstein-equation-emc2-special-
relativity-alok-jha

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/22/shannon-information-theory

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/13/fourier-transform-maths-
equations-history

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/09/ideal-gas-law-expand-heat-
pressure-temperature-volume

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bicycle-problem-that-nearly-broke-
mathematics/

IT : Net Neutrality http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/nothing-free-or-basic-

about-it/article8042334.ece

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/india-net-neutrality-activists-
facebook-free-basics

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-facebook-free-basics-
net-neutrality-row

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/28/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-
india-internet-free-basics

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/01/economist-explains-3
http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685292-critics-argue-
mark-zuckerbergs-generosity-cover-landgrab-facebooks-free-internet

IT :

https://hbr.org/2016/09/cybersecurity-is-every-executives-job

Knowledge Module from the desk of #MUS, #The Game War :

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft-monopolise-pc-games-development-epic-
games-gears-of-war

http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/trai-facebook-
free-basics-bans-international-media/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/indias-ban-on-facebooks-free-
service-is-an-overreaction

http://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/the-father-of-the-internet-wants-you-to-just-
say-no-to-facebook-s-free-basics/story-o2MMpHDiNsZqli2OmbPTFL.html

IT , Encryption : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/22/the-
guardian-view-on-encryption-the-problem-is-obvious-but-the-answer-is-still-elusive

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/23/apple-google-microsoft-
weakening-encryption-back-doors

human brain : https://theconversation.com/is-your-nervous-system-a-democracy-or-a-

dictatorship-when-controlling-your-behavior-61888?xid=PS_smithsonian

physics : http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/the-bridge-from-nowhere?
utm_source=frontpage&utm_medium=mview&utm_campaign=the-bridge-from-
nowhere

hack/ IT : https://www.wired.com/2016/08/new-form-hacking-breaks-ideas-
computers-work/

Psychology

Communication : http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/04/how-to-get-
heard-in-meetings-deep-breaths-superhero-poses-and-owning-bossy
Bureaucracy http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/cover-story/bureaucratic-
reform-revamp-our-bureaucracy/story/227535.html

business http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/04/corporate-america-
detroit-love-affair-brands-comeback

china –pak silk route : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32400091

business : AT&T http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-

the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html?
action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full&regio
n=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

Chinese currency :
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/business/dealbook/chinese-start-to-lose-
confidence-in-their-currency.html?
action=click&contentCollection=Technology&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full&r
egion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

Great Depression http://history-world.org/great_depression.htm

Global economy http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/27/living-

dangerously-2016-light-fuse-impending-explosion-global-economy

http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/jan/24/4th-industrial-
revolution-brings-promise-and-peril-for-humanity-technology-davos

economics http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-
blog/2016/feb/07/keynes-helped-us-through-the-crisis-but-hes-still-out-of-favour

Oil prices http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/17/why-falling-oil-price-

not-mean-global-economic-boom

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/17/oil-price-woes-deepen-as-iran-
vows-to-add-500000-barrels-day

oil/ gas/ fracking : http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401

Viewpoint http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/14/economics-
viewpoint-baby-boomers-generation-x-generation-rent-gig-economy

Viewpoint : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/19/new-
language-talk-economy-politicians-theories?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook

Art : http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/18/vincent-van-gogh-the-
letters

business : https://hbr.org/2016/09/run-b2b-sales-on-data-not-hunches

art : http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/tyranny-of-art-history-in-contemporary-
art.html
Business : http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardkestenbaum/2016/09/06/in-retail-
the-world-is-on-fire/#721173df7b9b

Poem : http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/03/poem-week-lewis-carroll-
robert-southey

Ideology : http://www.historytoday.com/maurice-cranston/french-revolution-ideas-
and-ideologies