Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos
Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?
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MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood
Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
I don’t think this book had the desired effect.
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Evolution – Stephen Baxter
If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison
The word of the day is: Malthusian
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.
All These Worlds – Dennis E Taylor
Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody – Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
This book is meant to be a critique of the newest form of post-modern philosophy, and what it ultimately morphed into.
Tiamat’s Wrath – James S. A. Corey
I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.
