Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
In an attempt to draw everything together, physicists have come up with something called superstring theory. This postulates that all those little things like quarks and leptons that we had previously thought of as particles are actually “strings”—vibrating strands of energy that oscillate in eleven dimensions, consisting of the three we know already plus time and seven other dimensions that are, well, unknowable to us.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Learning is relatively easy when you know exactly what to learn and how to learn it, and so long as the answer is unchanging (as is the case with many purely technical concepts).
Know How Your Org Works
Cindy Sridharan
Local government and private companies collaborated to provide free public transport passes to employees, combined with a private shuttle bus to connect transit stops with workplaces. This programme, promoted through a marketing and communication plan, was found to have achieved a 37% reduction in the share of commuters travelling into the city centre by car.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
SUVs alone
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise