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The Seven Ages of Death
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Quo vAIdis
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
Quantum Supremacy
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Selfish Gene
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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

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

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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