The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
Reading this felt like a review course, but maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.
Non-Fiction
Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia
I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.
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Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
Humanity’s prehistory was once very overlooked by people who claimed to be lovers of history. Hopefully this book changes that.
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Atomic Habits – James Clear
Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.
Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn
The internet has broken a lot of boundaries and made the world a lot more interconnected. This is a good thing, until you think about it in the context of crime.
Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.
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Failures in Polymathy 