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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
What If? by Randall MunroeGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThings to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt    ParkerZero to One by Peter ThielThe Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman
Books featured in Vsauce's videos
74 books — 47 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

Blood River by Tim ButcherAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Mind-changing Nonfiction
100 books — 77 voters
Shamanism by Manvir   SinghA Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather E. HeyingRace Marxism by James   LindsayCynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Decoding the Gurus Podcast
86 books — 2 voters

Atom by Isaac AsimovMolecules by Philip BallBeyond the Zonules of Zinn by David BainbridgeThe Body by Bill BrysonThe Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
Science Books All Disciplines
9 books — 1 voter
The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers by Ruth H FinneganA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksFuzz by Mary Roach
If you like Mary Roach...
59 books — 20 voters


Mary Roach
Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva." "Erika, I'm a dried up husk." "Don't say that, Mary. ...more
Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Bill Schutt
Until relatively recently, and with a very few exceptions, cannibalism would have been regarded as anything but normal. As a result, until the last two decades of the 20th century, few scientists spent time studying a topic thought to have little, if any, biological significance. Basically, the party line was that cannibalism, when it did occur, was either the result of starvation to the stresses related to captive conditions. It was as simple as that. Or so we thought.
Bill Schutt, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

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