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A book I enjoyed on this subject was Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History Of Heat By Hans Christian Von Baeyer ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/184266/warmth-dis…

Blindsight, Peter Watts [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) ]. Avaliable free in a number of formats from his website: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.ht…

Third and final article doesn't appear to be linked from the others but is online. https://towardsdatascience.com/human-like-machine-hearing-wi...

Accompanying article: https://www.theverge.com/science/2019/2/19/18225564/animal-r... ScienceDaily article with link to original paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/0…

Maybe not "better literature" but I always look forward to a new Rebus novel by Ian Rankin ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Rebus ). Though, the best (IMHO) whodunnit …

Today's transcript: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/santos-and-m-v-sec...

Would that play be Copenhagen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_(play) )? If so, I highly recommend the BBC adaptation with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg, Stephen Rea as Niel…

Audio recording: http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/scr/hacker/AudioRecordings.html

Also Church [ http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church ], a Scheme derivative with probabilistic semantics.

Or the threading macro #(-> 5 %)

Re: conkeror, I keep hoping the lazy web will take Shane Celis's emacsy and webkit proof of concept[0] and make a scheme-based emacs-like browser. [0] https://github.com/shanecelis…

Depends what you want, but to access the data in info boxes look into http://dbpedia.org and sparql. For a quick intro into that see Bob DuCharme's post http://www.snee.com/bobdc.b…