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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
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Andrew Yang (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 9,743 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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Claire L. Evans (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,335 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
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4.23 avg rating — 54,696 ratings
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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 31,109 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 440,181 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4.41 avg rating — 278,943 ratings
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Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
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3.93 avg rating — 2,675 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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3.93 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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Richard Munson (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 40,811 ratings
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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
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4.07 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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4.23 avg rating — 4,473 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
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Gary B. Meisner (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 235 ratings
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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3.62 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of the Cultural Mind
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3.75 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
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4.18 avg rating — 11,991 ratings
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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4.11 avg rating — 11,626 ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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Rutger Bregman (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 42,297 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 199,942 ratings
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Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
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Melissa Dahl (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
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Lucy Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 16,465 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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Robert Kurson (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 11,542 ratings
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The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Wits Guts Grit: All-Natural Biohacks for Raising Smart, Resilient Kids
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Jena Pincott (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 57 ratings
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How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)
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Ryan North (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 6,194 ratings
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The Wonder Down Under: A User's Guide to the Vagina
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4.19 avg rating — 5,173 ratings
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The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
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3.96 avg rating — 3,288 ratings
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Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America
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3.84 avg rating — 99 ratings
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
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4.05 avg rating — 2,550 ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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4.06 avg rating — 7,565 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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4.16 avg rating — 171,136 ratings
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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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Alex Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 19,048 ratings
score: 98,
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Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World
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Les Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 32,304 ratings
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Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
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3.51 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
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4.03 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
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3.81 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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3.79 avg rating — 3,848 ratings
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The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone (The Introvert’s Edge Series)
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Matthew Owen Pollard (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,400 ratings
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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4.26 avg rating — 85,733 ratings
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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4.20 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
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The Secret Language of Cats: How to Understand Your Cat for a Better, Happier Relationship
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3.10 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Jan 27, 2019 05:07PM
Man's Search for Meaning was published in 1946 so I removed it. Also, it's quite a stretch to call it science. Please let's keep this list clean and valuable.
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