The Hobbit

It's been quite a while since I've last read this great book. This weekend I wanted to read something good again and I remembered a book that my sister brought back from her exchange in Netherlands. It was a 1966 edition of the book written by J. R. R. Tolkien titled The Hobbit. Since I do believe you all know it I just won't say anything about the content except that it is darn good. This was the first time that I have read it in it's native language (English) and I have to say it is worth it.

I just can't wait the movie.

Summer School on quantum physics

A different kind of summer school that I also "visited" this summer, was summer school on quantum physics held by bureau42. It was my first on-line summer school where you get all the materials in PDF format once per week. It was a nice review of quantum physics topics explained in a very simple way so that broad number of people can understand what it is all about.

If you are new to the quantum physics I can recommend this series of 10 documents to get a better understanding of it and to get the feeling if you would like some more.

Google Scribe

I have just read a news about this great tool that Google has in their Labs. Google Scribe is a great tool that helps you with writing, by suggesting the next word or two. And it does it with great success. I must say it's is an amazing tool that just boosts your typing productivity by a great factor. The only bad thing about it so far is that it only "speaks" English. But I think that will change very soon.

I love it.

You can read more about it here.

The Foundation novels (continued)

Just few day ago I posted a note on the Foundation novels series form Isaac Asimov. It showed a good thing as a friend of mine read the post and told me that he owns the first part of the series and that he can lend it to me (thanks Luka). I was so glad. I've finished the book in just few days after I borrowed it and I must say it is a great beginning. It gave me the nice intro into flow of events that led to second and third book of series. Now I just need to read the rest of them and I hope it will be soon.

Greatest Show on Earth

During my summer school in the Netherlands I had quite a lot of time while driving on trains and waiting at the airport. Yes again my plane had been delayed. This time it was because one of the flight companies planes broke down and they didn't have any spare planes. It happens. And that was why I had several more hours to spent at the Amsterdam airport. Since I have finished other books that I had on me, I went to a bookstore to find some other book. I spent quite some time there, but I just couldn't find any interesting fiction or science fin books. The next obvious choice was some science reading. And I have to say I was glad to find this book. It's a book from Richard Dawkins (wiki) a very well known evolutionary biologist.

I didn't really learn that much new things from it but the books gives you a great overview of the evolution theory and the different perspectives that people have about this topic. I was just jumping from one page to another and finished it few days after my return home. If you are new to evolution theory and want to learn about it from the best man in the field, this is surely a book for you. I would even recommend it to someone who just wants to refresh his/hers knowledge on the topic and see it from another angle. It's a really great book.