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We promise to share with you, dear readers, the finest books we have read, those which have broadened our vision and deepened our thinking.

16 בMay 2024 /

A genius confined by genetics
“The need to nurture the flame of human consciousness”.
A tremendous sense of purpose
accompanied by the thought that “maybe karma is a real thing”.
Elon Musk
A fascinating personality

2015, the first biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance was published. I first discovered it during a business trip to China, in one of the markets. In the years since, the man has fascinated me. I read the book with great interest and my impression of his personality has only intensified. In 2023, another [...]
25 בJuly 2023 /

Nonexistence Exist
The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yōko Ogawa A small book, which aroused great interest in Japan
and many other countries.
nd rightly so.

Posted in books, perspectives on life “So who was it? Who discovered zero?” “An Indian mathematician; we don’t know his name. The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome [...]
15 בDecember 2022 /

“Address Unknown”
Are we aware of the influence that any ideology can have?
To answer this question, each of us must be aware of the power of words.

Posted in books     |     13  December 2022 Popular content in the media has lost value, because nonsense has been freed from all restraints, and is often accompanied by other serious diseases, such as distorted reality, abusiveness and even violence. For several generations, young people have been growing up in a climate unable to distinguish between [...]
28 בMarch 2022 /

Go Wild in a Book

‘The Art of Joy’ is a book that can’t be fit into a mold. Cheers!

We promise a book of surprises, with a surprise on almost every page, and sometimes several on a single page.

Chronologically, 'The Art of Joy' takes place between 1900 and 1940 in Sicily. Readers witness two world wars, the Spanish Flu pandemic, fascism’s rise to power in Italy, aristocratic families and poor, simple people, and the mobilization of a communist organization, mainly by young intellectuals outside Sicily and its infiltration into the island, devout Christian conservatism, Mafia resonances [...]
22 בDecember 2021 /

“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors.”

Stanisław Lem

The Solarist

100 years since the birth of Stanisław Lem – anyone who reads Solaris might think that the cobwebs are being cleaned from deep recesses of their brain.

Solaris is cataloged as science fiction, only because of our need to classify things. Disregard the classification and read the book. Dr. Aaron Hauptman has retranslated the Solaris from Polish to Hebrew, simply because he was captivated with the book’s extraordinary qualities. We asked him to write this article and he gladly agreed, again because [...]
11 בOctober 2021 /

Forcognito – Future-think

Humans have the ability to future-think. Really?

Do humans and animals have futuristic cognition?

In his book Forcognito, Prof. David Passig reviews various studies in the field of neurophysiology and cognition that illuminate his claim that the brain is ready for its next evolutionary stage, a stage in which, with assistance of human-made technologies, future- thinking will take on a new dimension. He calls this new ability, “forcognito.” Prof. [...]
14 בJuly 2021 /

“Full of sound and fury signifying nothing” (William Shakespeare)

The limits of human cognition, and especially mysterianism. That is, the unknown.

It is no coincidence that we have returned to Noam Chomsky’s book, What Kind of Creatures Are We? The trigger? Not only reality, but also a relatively recent article in which Idan Lando, who translated the book into Hebrew, interviews Noam Chomsky.

In the ninth decade of his life, Noam Chomsky wrote What Kind of Creatures Are We? as an attempted synthesis between various scientific theories and philosophical conceptions. The result is fascinating. From the height of interdisciplinary knowledge, Chomsky reaches the point where question marks stop us, as human beings, from seeing “beyond.” Noam Chomsky is [...]
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