New Words I Learned Today

Hyperopia: An excess of farsightedness. Most people aspire to be farsighted. It’s good to delay pleasure now so that we can be better off in the long run. But a recently published study (read about it here) interviewed people about what they regret. In the short term, people regretted partying [...]

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Book Review: The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene

It has literally taken me years to read this book. Not because it’s uninteresting or anything, but because I have to be in a certain mood to read it. A mood in which I’m ready to read slowly and think deeply.
The Elegant Universe is about superstring theory and M-theory; basically, the [...]

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