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August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

Factfulness – Hans Rosling

Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.

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Anthropology, History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020

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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Non-Fiction, Self-Help  0 Comments

July 10, 2020July 9, 2020

Atomic Habits – James Clear

Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.

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Crime, Internet, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 26, 2020May 7, 2020

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.

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Non-Fiction, Scepticism  2 Comments

June 12, 2020June 6, 2020

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.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Self-Help  0 Comments

May 29, 2020May 27, 2020

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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Crime, Non-Fiction, Spy  0 Comments

May 15, 2020May 2, 2020

Gray Day – Eric O’Neill

Imagine a spy story. No, a real one.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Talk on the Wild Side – Lane Greene

I seem not to be tiring of books on linguistics. It may be because books like this are just so interesting that I don’t mind going over the same information over again.

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Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

April 17, 2020December 19, 2019

This idea must die – John Brockman (ed.)

Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.

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Medicine, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

April 3, 2020December 30, 2019

The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz

I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.

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