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Determined - The Science of Life without Free Will

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Publication Date: October 2023

2025-04-21 4 min read Sincheenz

Where does your aversion to things, animals, or even certain people come from? Why do you behave in a particular way and avoid behaving in another? Are you responsible for all your actions and the choices you make? Or is it all biology? This is the main topic of this book Determined – Is there free will? And if there is NO free will, are we just machines driven by our physiology? Continue reading

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Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Publication Date: May 2017

2024-09-24 3 min read Sincheenz

This is not a book you can casually read before bed—at least not for me. It’s filled with a wealth of information on neuroscience, psychology, studies conducted, papers published, and more. It was very interesting, and I learned so much from it. It took me a while to read, as I had many interruptions, which meant I had to go back and reread several chapters. The book is about why we behave the way we do—what makes us congenial, aggressive, possessive, or averse. Continue reading

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Brief Answers to Big Questions

Author: Stephen Hawkings Publication Date: October 2018

2024-03-04 1 min read Sincheenz

The 10 questions addressed here include Is there a God? How it all began? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? I was skeptical about this book. I wasn’t sure if I would grasp everything about cosmology, quantum physics, black holes, and string theory. Continue reading

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Six Easy Pieces - Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Author: Richard Feynman Publication Date: 1994

2023-01-12 1 min read Sincheenz

I really enjoyed the book, simply because it wasn’t explained so beautifully. The book begins by emphasizing that Physics is one of the most inaccurate sciences, with much of it based on assumptions, and there’s always the possibility that what you believe in today could be disproved tomorrow. It makes you appreciate things around you differently and fosters an open mind toward many new discoveries and technologies. The author explains the fundamentals beautifully, starting with atoms and their influence on everything around us. Continue reading