Some Philosophical Fiction

• Foucault's Pendulum
• Einstein's Dreams
• The Elephant Tree
• The Man Without Qualities
• The Wall
• The First Death
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Beyond Good and Evil
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
• Waiting for Godot
• The Magic Mountain
• Faust
• Candide

The Public Domain

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. 
 -- Marcus Aurelius

There is no such thing as free lunch, however...

Gutenberg.org provides public domain writing like that of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 

The Meditations of Marcus-Aurelius can also be found freely read aloud on LibrioVox.Org.

The Gleaners on Learn Out Loud

History of Philosophy Marcus Aurelius

Golden Book by Marcus Aurelius on iTunes

Listen to Genius.com Marcus Aurelius

Good Reads

Book reading and reviewing.

Good Reads always you to setup your own book review site and build a community around your favorite subject or join other existing groups.  For example, you can join what-s-the-name-of-that-book or paranormal-kickass-chicks.  

If you have questions about a book, go to the Tomato Nation.

Nam-A-Rama

Nam-A-Rama by Phillip Jennings
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Hill Air E Us. I brought this book to the beach not realizing it was a satire. The sting of his humor is directed not at the War or the soldier, rather the establishment. The writing is similar to Catch-22 and the lampoons are both sharp and subtle. It was a little embarrassing to find myself sitting on the beach and laughing out loud to no one in particular.

The author was a marine in Vietnam, so he is quite detailed in the events and culture of the time. As a side note, I found out later that he also wrote a serious book on the entire history of the war in Vietnam. He appears to research the subject well and brought to light many ideas and insights I had never heard before.

dgp

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Prediction

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins offers that the mind is a prediction machine.  We predict.  We predict more than you may think.  

Bayes' Theorem is Nate Silver's key to managing predictions.

Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio talks about how homeostasis comes about and how predictions are essential.  The brain began to predict "good" by sensing the molecules like dopamine or oxytocin.  

Three very enlightening and enjoyable books

Twitter:
@numenta Jeff Hawkins of Numenta
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
Antonio Damasio

An Apple A Day

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
 -- Og Mandino

What makes us healthy, wealthy and wise?

The Harvard Grant Study - 70 Years of Research on a group of young men of the 1940's.  The study provided psychologist with a large body of individualized data over a wide range of years.  A similar database involves the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness  program developed for the Army with the help of Martin Seligman.

Triumphs of Experience by George E. Vaillant looks into the vast amounts of data from the Harvard Grant Study and comes away with an interesting analysis of human behavior.  Chris Gondek interviews George E. Vaillant on The Invisible Hand podcast.

Twitter: @ChrisGondek

Subliminal

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

-- Williams James

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior


@lmlodinow

Bailout

Twitter:

The Drive In: Too Happy?  Need a Slap? @econtalker uncovers Bailouts with @neilbarofsky former Special Inspector General with TARP.  http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.html

Bailout on Amazon

From around the web: 

From the ubiquitous Wikipedia

Kirkus Book Review

Why the book matters on Naked Capitalism

Book Beast on the Daily Beast

Seeking Alpha member reviews book

Memories

Moonwalking with Einstein is a book by Joshua Foer chronicling his serendipitous stumble into The World Memory Championship.

Book 'Em Dano

1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman
2. Numerical Recipes by Saul A. Teukolsky,William T. Vetterling and Brian P. Flannery
3. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth