I have been reading quite a bit. I have a Nook and a Kindle Fire
so it's quite handy to take books with us while traveling. The most
recent books I enjoy are:
1. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson: A compelling story of a complex
human being.
2. "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt:
An amazing story-telling of Western civilization to the Renaissance
and Enlightenment.
3. "Knocking on Heaven's Door: How physics and Scientific Thinking illuminate
the Universe and Modern World" by Lisa Randall. An explanation of
the complex universe [or multi-verse] we live in from quantum physics
to the cosmos. Highly recommended.
I really enjoy the free time to re-educate myself with books,
Netflix, magazines, newspapers, online Wikipedia,...
The difference I find that books [those I mentioned before] are much
more complex and are difficult to present in a different media such as
TV. I don't deny the power of visual presentations; we were quite
impressed with Netflix's "Downton Abbey" series and other
science programs from PBS. "Mao's last dancer" movie on Netflix
was also quite a powerful message. But it is not easy to present
ideas from "The Swerve" or Lisa Randall's "Touching Heaven's..."
books in video format.
