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Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

January 11, 2019December 5, 2018

What Language is – John McWhorter

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Current Events, Cyberpunk, Essays, Future, Humanism, Internet, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

December 28, 2018August 24, 2018

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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Internet, Internet Culture, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

December 14, 2018August 20, 2018

Kill all Normies – Angela Nagle

Angela Nagle’s ‘Kill all Normies’ takes a look at how internet cultures have fostered the current political environment.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Cyberpunk, Future, Non-Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  1 Comment

November 30, 2018August 20, 2018

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.

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Cancer, History, Medical History, Medicine, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

November 16, 2018August 11, 2018

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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Current Events, Humanism, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

November 2, 2018August 11, 2018

Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker wants to prove that things are not so bad right now., and will even get better if we focus on the correct things.

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Anthropology, Death, Non-Fiction, Travel  0 Comments

October 19, 2018July 13, 2018

From Here to Eternity – Caitlin Doughty

How do you feel about the dead? Would you like to have them a little more around? That actually is an option of sorts…

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Non-Fiction, Science, Technology  4 Comments

October 5, 2018July 2, 2018

Data and Goliath – Bruce Schneier

People keep telling us that we are being spied on, but what does that really mean, anyway?

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

September 21, 2018October 16, 2018

Insane Clown President – Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi followed the last election. It was like watching the world’s slowest possible train wreck.

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Art History, Essays, Non-Fiction, Politics, Uncategorized  0 Comments

September 7, 2018June 29, 2018

Ways of Seeing – John Berger

This slim Art History book has little history in it. It has lots of politics, and some pretty strong opinions about where art and politics intersect…

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