Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
After the Gallaudet tour, I could better imagine what that might be like. Sound is a multisensory pleasure because it’s a wave. That’s why it’s something you can feel—the diffusion of its energy from a high concentration to a lower one as it moves through space.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Mitchell Waldrop • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Electrons are so small that some say they have no effective size—they’re less than a thousand-trillionth of a centimeter across—and
Warren Goldstein • For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time—A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
The internet is, after all, a physical presence. Its tubes cross the ocean. Its servers fill up deserts in Arizona. Too often we’re not prepared to visualize it in that way. The photographer Trevor Paglen has done an essential project where he dives into the ocean and tracks the cables snaking along the sea floor. He shoots portraits of Miami Beach
... See moreDamian Bradfield • The Trust Manifesto: What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet
But it didn’t explain the foundational belief at CERN: that great, valuable discoveries derive not from planning but from adhering to a total commitment to the pursuit of new knowledge.
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
‘While entirely of human design,’ wrote Barabási, ‘the emerging network appears to have more in common with a cell or an ecological system than with a Swiss watch.’