Ryu's Blog

I finished my mid-terms a few days ago. Nowadays I’m less able to force myself to study for exams’ sake. Maybe it’s just an excuse for not studying, but it seems no point to me to cram lots of ideas for the sake of exam without much help in understanding the topics. I’m surprised that even the day before the mid-term, I found myself reading unrelated articles on philosophy, psychology and different blogs online by economists, geeks, and artists. And naturally after seeing many great photos and artworks on the artists’ blogs, I just can’t stop the temptation of sketching and fooling around with drawing software (but too bad I can’t draw what I wanted and inspiration wasn’t on my side either). Luckily I’ve been working steadily throughout my vacation, so I don’t think the exam result would turn out too bad. And I think reading various stuffs online help me appreciates my studies more. Bloggosphere, RSS feeds, and open source online index like Wikipedia make it so easy to get access to information and people’s thoughts and works. Wonderful technology.

Here are a few articles I came across today and found interesting.

Why Is Economics So Boring?

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Coxequation.html

How to Do What You Love

http://paulgraham.com/love.html

Give interesting thoughts on what does it mean to work on something you like and suggestions toward them. I found it more informative than most self-help books around on getting dream jobs.

Viagra and the Wealth of Nations

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/viagra.html

Is Science Killing the Soul

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dawkins_pinker/dawkins_pinker_index.html

Conversations touch upon science, culture, religion, ethics, and aesthetics by two renowned scientists, one biologist and one psychologist, both follow an evolutionary approach.