What We Are Reading Today: Humans by Surekha Davies

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Updated 19 March 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Humans by Surekha Davies

Surekha Davies’ “Humans” traces the long, volatile history of monster-making to chart a better path for the future. Along the way, Davies reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations.

This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

Updated 25 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

String algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to areas like genomics, where the genome of an organism can be encoded as a long string of letters.

This book provides an incisive introduction to the concepts and applications that every practitioner in the field needs to know.

It guides readers from the fundamentals of string processing to advanced computational methods.