Non-Fiction – Page 15 – Failures in Polymathy

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.

The Emperor of all Maladies is a wonderfully and detailed look at a terrifying disease – cancer. It does so in exacting detail.

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.

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

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

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

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…

Jaron Lanier is a man wearing many hats, and this makes him a very interesting subject for a memoir.

Ownership of a brain does not necessarily mean you know how it works. Or for that matter, how to get the best use out of it.

In the last days of his life Christopher Hitchens bravely attempted to chronicle his battle with cancer, up until he no longer could.