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Tractatus Academic-Capitalismus

An Academic Capitalist savors his unfashionable pursuits.

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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men

Sheldon Pollock’s magisterial work of scholarship, a winner of The Coomaraswamy Book Prize,…

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An Amazing Week! Schwab Fellows, Combating Anti-vax, CMU IFF, Lorentz Transformation

I suppose this is my version of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight….

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The Next Quantum Revolution?

Had a great trip to the SF area! The weather was perfect….

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Beyond OrganJet: Nudge Videos to Increase Organ and Tissue Consent from Legal Next-of-Kin

In 2010, after a dinner conversation with Baris Ata, I came up with…

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Looking Back: October 7, 2017

It was so exciting to receive a box (on February 9th, 2017)…

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars Michael…

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Conspicuous Leisure

Easily one of the most memorable scenes from Downton Abbey is when Maggie…

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A Backward Glance

Yes, let me use Edith Wharton’s memoir as the launch of, and…

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My Paris Review Interviews: Vol. I

Repurposing Orhan Pamuk’s Introduction to Vol. II: When I first read Faulkner Rushdie (in…

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Mathematics and Mythology

Poincare famously said: The art of mathematics is to give the same…

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KaRmA: Kernel-attuned Risk-managed Alpha

It is so good to be back at the Mandarin Oriental, of…

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My History of Eternity

Commemorating my really magical three decades at CMU with magical realism.

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Quantum Queuing (and Pancha-Prashna Q-Upanishad)

Design of practical quantum communication requires merging quantum information theory with queuing.

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Weston Brahmin

The origins of Sridhara Navatva-Shastra.

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Loki, Lupin and In the Heights

Beginning the Father’s Day weekend early, watching Loki with my teenage sons.

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Ronald C. White. Lincoln in Private.

Mark Twain. Roughing It.

David M. Friedman. Wilde in America.

Hans Christian von Baeyer. QBism.

Robert Iger. The Ride of a Lifetime.

John Burnside. The Music of Time.

Aaron Glantz. Homewreckers.

Michael J. Sandel. The Tyranny of Merit.

Ansgar Allen. Cynicism.

Kevin Brown. Reflections on Relativity.

Wolfram Eilenberger. Time of the Magicians.

P.J.E. Peebles. Cosmology’s Century.

Carol Anderson. White Rage.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Had I Known.

Kip Thorne. The Science of Interstellar.

Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Arthur Koestler. The Sleepwalkers.

Brian C. Hall. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians.

Julian Barnes. The Man in the Red Coat.

Amitav Ghosh. The Great Derangement.

Aravind Adiga. Amnesty (A Novel).

Harold Bloom. The American Canon.

Daniel Silva. The New Girl.

Toni Morrison. The Source of Self-Regard.

Matthew Pearl. The Dante Chamber.

Hans Halvorson (Ed.). Deep Beauty.

Robert Menasse. The Capital (A Novel).

Sheldon Pollock. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men.

Mathias Énard. Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants.

Joshua D. Mezrich. When Death Becomes Life.

Anthony Horowitz. Magpie Murders.

Robert B. Griffiths. Consistent Quantum Theory.