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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’
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Updated 28 January 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’

Authors: Ariel Rokem & Tal Yarkoni 

As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to access, manage, and analyze datasets at unprecedented scales.

Concerns about reproducibility and increased rigor in reporting of scientific results also demand higher standards of computational practice.

This book offers neuroimaging researchers an introduction to data science, presenting methods, tools, and approaches that facilitate automated, reproducible, and scalable analysis and understanding of data.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Calculus 2 Simplified’

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Updated 19 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Calculus 2 Simplified’

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  • Oscar Fernandez provides a “Goldilocks approach” to learning the mathematics of integration, infinite sequences and series

Author: OSCAR E. FERNANDEZ

Second-semester calculus is rich with insights into the nature of infinity and the very foundations of geometry, but students can become overwhelmed as they struggle to synthesize the range of material covered in class.

Oscar Fernandez provides a “Goldilocks approach” to learning the mathematics of integration, infinite sequences and series, and their applications—the right depth of insights, the right level of detail, and the freedom to customize your student experience.

 


What We Are Reading Today: Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

What We Are Reading Today:  Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell
Updated 18 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

What We Are Reading Today:  Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms.

In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in their favor and stymie seemingly unstoppable foes. In Great Power Diplomacy, American historian and diplomat A.

Wess Mitchell recounts the forgotten story of how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, and outlast militarily superior opponents.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Discrete Choice Models’

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Updated 17 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Discrete Choice Models’

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  • This book offers a foundational treatment of discrete choice models, introducing the logit model and its generalizations, logistic and Poisson regressions

Author: ALFRED GALICHON 

“Discrete choice models” are essential tools for understanding decision-making when individuals must choose among alternatives.

They have applications across the social sciences, notably in economics, marketing, and political science.

This book offers a foundational treatment of discrete choice models, introducing the logit model and its generalizations, logistic and Poisson regressions, and generalized linear models, and demonstrates their use in analyzing important econometric models.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Father Time’ by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Father Time’ by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Updated 16 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Father Time’ by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Father Time’ by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? But come the 21st century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth.

How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be “normal.”


Book Review: ‘My Musings’

Book Review: ‘My Musings’
Updated 16 October 2025

Book Review: ‘My Musings’

Book Review: ‘My Musings’
  • The book reminds us that meaning often hides in the everyday, waiting for us to notice. 

JEDDAH: “My Musings” feels less like a book and more like a long, unhurried conversation with someone who has lived, laughed, lost, and learned, and is generous enough to share the journey.

A.G. Danish has a gift for noticing the small things most of us overlook and then weaving them into reflections that suddenly feel universal.

What’s refreshing is how ordinary moments, like staring at an empty fridge, fighting with a remote control, or sipping a cup of tea, become mirrors for bigger truths about life, love, and resilience.

He doesn’t preach; he observes. And in those observations, there’s humor, honesty, and sometimes a quiet ache that stays with you long after you’ve put the book down.

The beauty of “My Musings” lies in its balance: One page makes you smile, the next makes you pause, and before you know it, you’re looking at your own life a little differently.

Danish is not afraid to show his vulnerability, especially when he writes about family and loss, and that honesty is what makes the writing so relatable.

His pain of losing his wife Farida Danish can be felt in some parts of the book.

This is not a book to rush through. It’s the kind you keep on your bedside table, picking up a piece at a time, letting each thought breathe. Each chapter is a saga in itself.

If you enjoy writing that is simple, reflective, and deeply human, “My Musings” is worth your time. It reminds us that meaning often hides in the everyday, waiting for us to notice. 

A warm, thoughtful, and quietly powerful read.