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.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.
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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.
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.
The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.
An Anthropologist on Mars – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks’ “An Anthropologist on Mars” handles a terrifying subject matter in a way that is nothing but fascinating.
Failures in Polymathy 