In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world. In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors.

Suomen merimuseon tervehdys / Tiina Mertanen -- Merenkulun riskit ja resurssit / Kirsi Keravuori ja Sari Mäenpää -- Borstön hylky ei ollutkaan St. Mikael / Yrjö Kaukiainen -- Mikä laivoissa maksoi? : hylkytavaran huutokaupat 1700-luvun puolivälin Helsingissä / Mikko Huhtamies -- Onnellisesti ja onnettomasti : haaksirikot ja Helsingin laivanvarustus 1700-luvun loppupuolella / Juha-Matti Granqvist -- Turmasta myytiksi, myytistä runoksi : V. A. Koskenniemen Titanic-aiheinen runo "Mister Hartley" / Silja Vuorikuru -- Taudit, sairastaminen ja kuolema merellä : merihistorian ja lääketieteen historian yhtymäkohtia ja tutkimusmahdollisuuksia / Elina Maaniitty -- Merenkulun riskit ja resurssit filippiiniläisille merimiehille / Jonna Laine -- Past, present and futures of cruise ship concept design : the perspective of Finnish cruise ship industry / Leena Jokinen, Marjo Keiramo, Pauli Kivistö, Tuire Palonen.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse university. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunder's writes. "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art - namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster, The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the minds itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

What would you confess if you knew it would never get back to your spouse, your colleagues, or your family? What story would you tell about your life if a stranger was willing to listen with no judgement, no stigma, and no consequences--just an unburdening and the relief of confession? A collection of raw, urgent, and heartfelt stories, shared anonymously.