In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Barbara discusses the science of how your brain functions and provides several strategies to improve your learning process. This article will provide a summary of the key ideas of…
The authors start the book with a quote from Confucius. I liked the use of this quote - it provides a sense of what needs to be done and emphasizes the patience required for the…
Michio Kaku is a prominent theoretical physicist and a futurist. In The Future of Humanity, he opens with a discussion of past cataclysmic events, such as the volcanic eruption in Toba, which initiated a global…
Michio Kaku is a well-known theoretical physicist in the field of string theory. I decided to read his book about the God equation after I came across his popular videos and documentaries on YouTube. He…
Animal Farm is a satirical novella written by George Orwell and was published in 1945. Summary The novella is about anthropomorphic farm animals who live under an oppressive human master, Mr. Jones. The farm animals…
1984 is a novel about a dystopian society that is characterized by totalitarianism, censorship, complete lack of freedom, nonexistence of individuality, and suppression of thought. If you have read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,…
This is a dystopian novel that occurs in 2540 A.D. (Gregorian calendar). It is about a futuristic society in a World State that is technologically advanced. Its inhabitants are not born, but rather manufactured in…
I just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov. I have the Constance Garnett translation, which is about 900 pages long. It took me a while (around 2 months) to finish it because I was trying to…
There are several English translations of the Brothers Karamazov. In this post, we will list the main ones in chronological order and briefly discuss them. Please share your thoughts about the translation you read in…
The Grand Inquisitor is a self-contained story inside of the larger novel of The Brothers Karamazov by the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Ivan Karamazov narrates this story (he calls it a poem) to his monk…