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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
The Seven Ages of Death
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Стіни в моїй голові. Жити з тривожністю і депресією
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Selfish Gene
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Bad Science
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanMy Brief History by Stephen W. HawkingTesla by Margaret CheneyGenius  by James GleickThe Queen's Conjurer by Benjamin Woolley
Science Biographies
50 books — 12 voters
The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers by Ruth H FinneganA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksFuzz by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
If you like Mary Roach...
56 books — 17 voters

Stuff Matters by Mark MiodownikThe New Science of Strong Materials by J.E. GordonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondLiquid by Mark MiodownikSalt by Mark Kurlansky
The Wonder of Stuff
84 books — 11 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Lost City of Z by David GrannThe Invention of Nature by Andrea WulfThe Gene by Siddhartha MukherjeeOn the Move by Oliver Sacks
Science Friday Radio Show/Podcast
106 books — 44 voters

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. RamachandranStuff Matters by Mark MiodownikCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLiquid Rules by Mark Miodownik
Armchair Science Books
28 books — 7 voters
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? by Stephen  WebbOne of Ten Billion Earths by Karel SchrijverGREAT SILENCE by Milan M. ĆirkovićA Series of Fortunate Events by Sean B. CarrollSolving Fermi's Paradox by Duncan H. Forgan
Fermi Paradox and Drake Equation
8 books — 2 voters


Des résultats qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans des rapports ou des livres, même à gros tirage, n'ont aucune fiabilité. Tout simplement parce que ces publications n'ont pas passé le filtre du contrôle par les pairs. Les éditeurs n'ont évidemment pas la capacité d'expertise du monde académique et leur premier souci est plus de s'assurer du potentiel de vente d'un livre que de la parfaite légitimité scientifique des arguments que l'on y trouve. Par ailleurs, un livre qui se glorifie de p ...more
Pierre Cahuc, Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)

António Damásio
What worries me is the acceptance of the importance of feelings without any effort to understand their complex biological and sociocultural machinery. The best example of this attitude can be found in the attempt to explain bruised feelings or irrational behavior by appealing to surface social causes or the action of neurotransmitters, two explanations that pervade the social discourse as presented in the visual and printed media; and in the attempt to correct personal and social problems with m ...more
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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Pop Science & Other Nerdy Subjects Actively read and discuss modern science and the books that define it for the masses. With a foc…more
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O.R. Pagan hosts a Q&A about "The First Brain" The purpose of this Q&A is to answer any questions about my popular science book "The First Brai…more
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