What Language is – John McWhorter
John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.
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Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
Little Brother deals with some pretty serious topics, but distills them down to a point where even kids will find it all to be a bit silly.
What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman
You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut
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The Refrigerator Monologues – Catherynne M Valente
Did you ever think that there was something missing from a story only to realize that someone part of the narrative has been left out? That’s what this book is about.
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Kill all Normies – Angela Nagle
Angela Nagle’s ‘Kill all Normies’ takes a look at how internet cultures have fostered the current political environment.
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
In a future where governments are disappearing and corporations have taken over, a virus is being used to take over the world…
Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.
Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
A mysterious soviet research institute is best described as… kind of zany.
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The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of all Maladies is a wonderfully and detailed look at a terrifying disease – cancer. It does so in exacting detail.
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The Gap of Time – Jeanette Winterson
It was only a matter of time before a retelling turned into a ‘remix’. And of course it happened to Shakespeare…
Failures in Polymathy 