Selected
Read in a sitting
- 01 An original synthesis How Humans Found Music Where music comes from — the physics of harmony, the centuries-long argument over how to tune a scale, and the systems that grew up outside the Western tradition. origins · the harmonic series · temperament · tuning as culture
- 02 Ecology, from first principles The Living Planet Ecology built from the ground up — how energy flows, matter cycles, and populations rise and fall across a living planet. energy flows · matter cycles · populations · natural selection
- 03 After Iain McGilchrist The Matter With Things The two hemispheres of the brain attend to the world in fundamentally different ways — and which one we let lead quietly changes what reality looks like. hemispheres · attention · reality · the sacred
- 04 After Ken Wilber Sex, Ecology, Spirituality An 800-page attempt at a theory of everything — holons, the four quadrants, and the long fall into ‘flatland’ — made navigable in an afternoon. holons · four quadrants · the twenty tenets · flatland