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Resources I like to read
Phylosophy
- Excellent Resource: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/
- make sure you have the basics: Metaphysics Peter van Inwagen http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics/
- Crossing borders: science, philosophy and theology at http://disf.org/
- Oxford Podcast of Phylosophy http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts (Peter Millican is my favorite: http://philosophy.hertford.ox.ac.uk/peter/peter.htm )
- Kurt Gödel http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/
- Ted.com
- Fermilab lectures
- nature.com
- http://jco.ascopubs.org/
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
- f1000.com
Theatre
- Teatro Valle, Rome www.teatrovalle.it/ , well before they decided to shut it down...
- Loeb Drama Center at Harvard, http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/
- Il Piccolo, Milan http://www.piccoloteatro.org/
- Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago steppenwolf.org
Other
Papers and books of interest
The NewYorker, http://www.newyorker.com/
Phylosophy and History
- How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism by E. J. Hobsbawm (don't be afraid to read all the other book by this author).
- Metaphysics, a Guide and Anthology, OXFORD, Crane and Farkas. A very good guide to navigate milestone problem of phylosophy and read them from the original authors.
Logic
- about Kurt Godel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del ; Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel, by Rebecca Goldstein (on of the best book about Godel)
Science
- Moonwalking with Einstein, Foer. A nice book about memory and freakin geniuses
- What is life, Erwin Schrödinger, a masterpiece for the hardest question
- About Fallacy of the Scientific Method, Regression to Mean and Verbal Overshadowing. An interesting Essay from the NewYorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer
- Stanford classes of Cosmology by Leonard Susskind, available on iTunes or youtube.
- No evidence of time before Big Bang Latest Research suggest cycling time in the universe (as ancient Greeks already knew...)
- Notes and counter notes on theatre, Eugene Ionesco a must read
- Pirandello, or The Torture Chamber, Giovanni Macchia 1981
