#SundayReads 18.09.22
Read #1. Beginners guide to Formula One (pretty nifty for non-beginners too!)
Read #2. In defense of radical self-betterment.
The reason to care about your character is not because you need to prove anything to anyone, but because your character is your ultimate instrument for enacting the kind of life you want. So keep it as sharp as it needs to be in order to serve your chosen aims—and don’t obsess over the dull bits a minute longer than your aims demand.
Read #3. When Baghdad was the center of the scientific world.
There are many other great men whose contributions are forgotten in the west, such as Iraqi genius Ibn al-Haytham, the greatest physicist in the 2,000-year span between Archimedes and Newton, al-Bīrūni, the Persian polymath regarded as the Da Vinci of Islam, al-Tūsi, a mathematician and astronomer who would influence Copernicus, and Ibn Khaldūn, the acknowledged father of social science and economic theory. All these men are no less worthy of mention in the history of science than Aristotle, Galileo, Newton or Einstein.
Read #4. Celebrating Black-Owned Hotels in Africa, One Instagram at a Time
Read #5. On Gastrodiplomacy