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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,658 ratings
"From the "What's the brightest thing in the universe?" video."
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,872 ratings
"From the "Cruel bombs" video."
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
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3.96 avg rating — 11,402 ratings
"From the "Cruel bombs" video."
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The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 595 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,240 ratings
"From the "Our narrow slice" video."
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 9,524 ratings
"From the "Friend zone" video."
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
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3.49 avg rating — 5,127 ratings
"From the "What is the Web?" video."
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 467,269 ratings
"From the "Who owns the moon?" video."
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How to Disappear
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3.46 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
"From the "How to disappear" video."
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The Mind Test
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
"From the "Why are things creepy?" video."
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A Philosophy of Boredom
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3.80 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
"From the "Why do we get bored?" video."
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Boredom: A Lively History
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3.14 avg rating — 330 ratings
"From the "Why do we get bored?" video."
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The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
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4.04 avg rating — 233 ratings
"From the "Is anything real?" video."
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The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
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3.59 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
"The books does not appear on the "Mistake" video, but it's a pretty extensive book about the "half-life of knowledge"."
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Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
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4.19 avg rating — 127 ratings
"From the "Is anything real?" video."
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The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy – A Quest for Knowledge and Discovery Across Interconnected Disciplines
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4.38 avg rating — 473 ratings
"From the "How Big Can a Person Get?" video."
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Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
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3.95 avg rating — 19,993 ratings
"From the "Why do we play games?" video."
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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3.95 avg rating — 62,150 ratings
"From the "A Defense of Comic Sans" video."
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Probability Tales
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
"From the "This is only red" video."
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After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver
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3.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
"From the "Why Don't We Taxidermy Humans?" video."
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Paper Towns
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3.70 avg rating — 1,510,083 ratings
"From the Dord. episode"
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
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3.68 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
"From the Dord. episode"
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The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories
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3.87 avg rating — 975 ratings
"From the Vsauce3 "Portals" video"
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
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3.55 avg rating — 786 ratings
"Spooky Coincidences"
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
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3.73 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
"Spooky Coincidences"
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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away
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2.91 avg rating — 496 ratings
"Why Are We Morbidly Curious?"
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.21 avg rating — 111,449 ratings
"Why Are We Morbidly Curious?"
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There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book
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4.02 avg rating — 252 ratings
"From the Misnomers episode"
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The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
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4.05 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 311,946 ratings
"Is All Fair in Love and War?"
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Motel of the Mysteries
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4.11 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
"Did The Past Really Happen?"
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Expedition to Earth
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3.95 avg rating — 3,828 ratings
"Did The Past Really Happen?"
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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4.03 avg rating — 5,505 ratings
"Did The Past Really Happen?"
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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
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3.73 avg rating — 5,019 ratings
"Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?"
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The Life of the Cosmos
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4.19 avg rating — 950 ratings
"Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?"
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In Search of the Multiverse
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4.08 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
"Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?"
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Gadsby
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2.79 avg rating — 341 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 199,201 ratings
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The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox
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3.94 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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4.16 avg rating — 3,419 ratings
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Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science
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3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
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4.02 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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