Amid the war in Ukraine, a soldier with the callsign “Stoic” finds strength in the writings of Marcus Aurelius. This article follows his journey from aspiring museum worker to drone operator, exploring how Stoic philosophy helps him and others endure the trauma, fear, and moral challenges of modern warfare.

Great novel (and movie) about cultural misunderstandings in Japan from prolific author Amélie Nothomb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling_(novel)

It is only because on the insistence of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover than Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute a majority of all western nuclear power plants. He rejected "crazy thermodynamic cycles that everyone else wants to build". So we got stuck with PWR inherent flaws. Check "The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference" (http://bit.ly/2FiJQ1u)

I loved that book! Excellent recommendation. If you want a good intro to non-PWR nuclear power technologies, I'd highly recommend "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future" by Richard Martin.

And he may have had more impact as a writer than as a programmer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/05/05/...

Actually, Australia went trough the same payroll procurement fiasco with IBM. You can read the report http://www.healthpayrollinquiry.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf...