Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.
Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.
Humanity’s prehistory was once very overlooked by people who claimed to be lovers of history. Hopefully this book changes that.
read more Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.
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.
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.
read more How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
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.
Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.