The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought – Dennis C. Rasmussen
Hume and Smith were bros. Now you know.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
I don’t think I cared much for mountaineering before reading this.
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The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire – Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence
Some pulpy graphics novels. Maybe they should have held the pulp
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Pianeta Terra – Astutillo Smeriglia
Smeriglia’s satire is good, but it works better with his cartoons.
Orconomics and Son of a Liche – J. Zachary Pike
“” by @jzacharypike makes me feel less alone in the world.
Teaching Unplugged – Scott Thornbury, and Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching – Jack C Richards and Theodore S Rodgers
ESL is a clown show, and here are some manuals for the snake oil.
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The Martian 2: but more sci-fi this time
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values – Sam Harris
I wanted to like this. But then again, who doesn’t want to solve the is/ought problem?
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Children of the New World – Alexander Weinstein
Oh look, a short story collection I really liked.
Failures in Polymathy 