On episode seven of Stay Reading, we were joined by Shad (@shadkmusic) and Nicole Chin (@nicoletchin) for a conversation about war, science and empathy. We dove into Carlo Rovelli’s 7 Brief Lessons on Physics and Neil Turok’s The Universe Within to explore how physics helps us to understand ourselves, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the relationship of the ocean to our ancestry and shared thoughts on what war shows us about humanity from Abu Bakr’ Al-Rabeeah Homes and the writing of Tim O’Brien.