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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

May 3, 2019December 9, 2018

I Can’t Breathe – Matt Taibbi

Eric Garner’s death was one of the most startling events of 2014

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Fiction, Future, Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019

Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil

How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.

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Atheism, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion  0 Comments

April 5, 2019December 3, 2018

Godless – Dan Barker

This book is part memoir, part counter apologetics, and a pretty good tool to understand why atheists don’t believe.

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Conservative, Culture, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

March 22, 2019March 17, 2019

Culture Counts – Roger Scruton

Do you remember the good old days? Roger Scruton does, and his memory of the good old days will save western civilization.

Not really…

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science, Trauma, Uncategorized  0 Comments

February 8, 2019November 11, 2018

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.

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Longer Views, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Self-Help  0 Comments

January 25, 2019August 4, 2021

Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson

At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

January 11, 2019December 5, 2018

What Language is – John McWhorter

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Current Events, Cyberpunk, Essays, Future, Humanism, Internet, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

December 28, 2018August 24, 2018

What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman

You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Cyberpunk, Future, Non-Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  1 Comment

November 30, 2018August 20, 2018

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.

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Anthropology, Death, Non-Fiction, Travel  0 Comments

October 19, 2018July 13, 2018

From Here to Eternity – Caitlin Doughty

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

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