Popular Science

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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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 Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems
Pańszczyzna. Prawdziwa historia polskiego niewolnictwa
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
The Universe
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
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerEuler by William Dunham
Popular Science for Smarties
133 books — 41 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

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
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



Brian Deer
If he could do what he did -- and I'll show you what he did -- who else is doing what in the hospitals and laboratories that we may one day look to for our lives? ...more
Brian Deer, The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines

Neil Shubin
By the mid-1980s, [Stephen Jay Gould] had emerged as a major public figure, using his background as a paleontologist to dive into controversies with radical stances on the ways new species emerge and how evolutionary change comes about. His [popular history of life] college class was composed of around six hundred students who, taking it as a distributional requirement, were unlikely to become science majors. This audience proved an ideal focal group for Gould to try out his new theories and pre ...more
Neil Shubin, Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

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