I recently read "The order of time" and "Helgoland" by Carlo Rovelli and am very impressed by the rigour, sensitivity and depth with which he treats such fundamental topics. I feel like I learnt a lot. Much more than in the 4 introductions to metaphysics I had read.

What a wonderful book! The age of wonder, by Richard Holmes, tells the story of some early scientists and romantics from around 1800 -- mainly men and mainly British, centered on Joseph Banks, William Herschel and Humphry Davy. Very enjoyable. Thanks @ricardsole.bsky.social for the recommendation 😍

I greatly enjoyed Anaximander, by Carlo Rovelli. "Anaximander opened the doors of Nature", said Pliny.

In the sixth century BCE he proposed that the Earth is a stone floating in the void. And set the ball rolling for scientific instead of mythical cosmogonies.

Andreas Klingler received a Prize for his PhD! I'm so happy. The prize was given by the Hypo Tyrol Bank. Congratulations, great job 😍

His PhD Thesis is available here
www.andreas-klingler.com/publications

Last week Tobias Reinhart defended his PhD Thesis beautifully in Innsbruck! In a very clear talk, he managed to share the ideas and results, based on
arxiv.org/abs/2407.13428
arxiv.org/abs/2307.06851 arxiv.org/abs/2208.08301
Congratulations!!! Great job.

I love being back to Innsbruck 😍 I love this town. It’s so pretty!