Joanne Peng's Science List↗
by Joanne Peng (Curated)
Selections from Joanne Peng's reading list on research, science, and creativity.
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Nobel Prize
42 minNobel Lecture, December 11, 1912 Suture of Blood-Vessels and Transplantation of Organs The idea of replacing diseased organs by sound ones, of putting back an amputated limb or even of grafting a...
The Final Speech from The Great Dictator
4 minThe Final Speech from The Great Dictator I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.
Antedisciplinary Science
7 minCitation: Eddy SR (2005) “Antedisciplinary” Science. PLoS Comput Biol 1(1): e6. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.
Richard Feynman’s Letter on What Problems to Solve
3 min“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife, Sixteen Months After Her Death
2 minRichard Feynman was an amazing character mastering physics, thinking, life, and as we shall soon see, love. Richard and Arline Greenbaum were soul mates.
You and Your Research
58 minRichard Hamming ``You and Your Research'' Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986 J. F.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
3 minImagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor's degree,...
Passing of a Great Mind: John von Neumann
18 minPassing of a Great Mind John von Neumann, a Brilliant, Jovial Mathematician, was a Prodigious Servant of Science and his Country by Clary Blair Jr .
Choose One of Five (Edith Sampson)
5 minYou graduates have every right to expect penetrating words of profound wisdom.
Night science
8 minIf we are woken up in the middle of the night and asked “How does science work?!