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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Seven Ages of Death
Quo vAIdis
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Quantum Supremacy
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
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

Neil deGrasse Tyson
For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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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