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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
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Selfish Gene
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
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 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
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

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
How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth ShapiroResurrection Science by M.R.  O'ConnorRise of the Necrofauna by Britt WrayWoolly by Ben MezrichFrankenstein's Cat by Emily Anthes
De-Extinction Science
14 books — 11 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
182 books — 242 voters


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Thomas Wheeler
Included in the GSM standard for mobile devices was the ability to use the mobile network's control channel (the parhway that controls the call but doesn't carry the call itself) to send short alphanumeric messages. It was envisioned principally as a means for one-way communication from the company to the subscriber (such as "your bill is due"). That changed when the functionality was discovered by Norwegian teenagers in the late 1980s. ...more
Tom Wheeler, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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