The Body: A Guide for Occupants – Bill Bryson
A guide to my body is exactly what I have always been wanting. I am not sure this book fulfills that desire.
Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – Richard Holmes
You can define your education by answering the question “Name notable figures from the Romantic period”. The answer, apparently, should all be scientists.
Evolution – Stephen Baxter
If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.
Technopoly – Neil Postman
The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.
McMindfullness – Ronald E. Purser
It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.
This idea must die – John Brockman (ed.)
Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.
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.
Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future – Marshal Brian
A decent vision polluted by very poor execution.
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Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil
How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.
The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk
Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.
Failures in Polymathy 