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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Quantum Supremacy
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
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
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Bad Science
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Radiolab Suggested Readings
181 books — 241 voters
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

Cosmos by Carl SaganSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman1984 by George OrwellA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Nerd's Guide to Reading
255 books — 76 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

The Case of the Frozen Addicts by J. William LangstonThe Best Bits of Physics by Alasdair C. ShawHow to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) by Lee Alan DugatkinOn the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by John LubbockWho Banged the Big Bang! by Prabha  Karan
How Science Works
34 books — 5 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


Sabine Hossenfelder
Popular-science news about quantum mechanics is to me as baffling as it is frustrating. Hand me an equation, and I can deal with it. But if you tell me that quantum mechanics allows one to separate a cat from its grin or that an experiment shows "an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners," I'll back out of the room quietly before anyone demands I explain this mess. I have suffered through countless well-intended introductions to quantum mechanics featuring quantum shoes, qua ...more
Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Art Hardy
The trials of evolution programme a human race for aggression, not wisdom. And once capitalism gets underway human relationships become regulated by systems that deliver behaviour into a killing zone of selfishness and greed. The Tension Dynamic, p165
Art Hardy, The Tension Dynamic: Can Humanity Navigate The Birth Canal?

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