Best Science Books | Summaries & Audio

Science Book Summaries

The Oxygen Advantage

by Patrick McKeown • 2015

Breathe less to get more oxygen: a simple test and nasal techniques boost endurance, burn fat.

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🌬️ Breathwork 🫁 Buteyko Method 🏅 Sports Performance 🏃‍♂️ Endurance Training 🫧 Asthma Relief

The Oxygen Advantage

Breathe less to get more oxygen: a simple test and nasal techniques boost endurance, burn fat.

by Patrick McKeown 2015 368 pages

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5k+ ratings

🌬️ Breathwork 🫁 Buteyko Method 🏅 Sports Performance 🏃‍♂️ Endurance Training 🫧 Asthma Relief

The Confidence Game

by Maria Konnikova • 2015

Anyone can be conned. The con artist's real genius is finding what you already want to believe.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Social Engineering 📊 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Victim Psychology 🃏 Con Artistry

The Confidence Game

Anyone can be conned. The con artist's real genius is finding what you already want to believe.

by Maria Konnikova 2015 352 pages

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6k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Social Engineering 📊 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Victim Psychology 🃏 Con Artistry

Avicenna's Medicine

by Avicenna • 1025

Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.

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🧪 Humoral Medicine 🕌 Islamic Medicine 🌡️ Temperament Types 🌿 Herbal Pharmacology 🏛️ Galenic Medicine

Avicenna's Medicine

Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.

by Avicenna 1025 480 pages

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276 ratings

🧪 Humoral Medicine 🕌 Islamic Medicine 🌡️ Temperament Types 🌿 Herbal Pharmacology 🏛️ Galenic Medicine

The Joy of X

by Steven H. Strogatz • 2012

Numbers, shapes, and change: the tour of math that makes the universe legible.

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The Joy of X

Numbers, shapes, and change: the tour of math that makes the universe legible.

by Steven H. Strogatz 2012 316 pages

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8k+ ratings

Introduction to Algorithms

by Thomas H. Cormen • 1989

Sorting a billion records can take days or seconds, depending on the algorithm, not the processor.

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📘 Algorithms 🗂️ Data Structures 📊 Algorithm Analysis ✂️ Divide And Conquer 🎲 Randomized Algorithms

Introduction to Algorithms

Sorting a billion records can take days or seconds, depending on the algorithm, not the processor.

by Thomas H. Cormen 1989 1184 pages

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9k+ ratings

📘 Algorithms 🗂️ Data Structures 📊 Algorithm Analysis ✂️ Divide And Conquer 🎲 Randomized Algorithms

Why People Believe Weird Things

by Michael Shermer • 1997

The smarter you are, the better you are at defending beliefs reason never built.

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🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 🔬 Pseudoscience 🧠 Cognitive Biases 💡 Critical Thinking 📚 Science Literacy

Why People Believe Weird Things

The smarter you are, the better you are at defending beliefs reason never built.

by Michael Shermer 1997 384 pages

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9k+ ratings

🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 🔬 Pseudoscience 🧠 Cognitive Biases 💡 Critical Thinking 📚 Science Literacy

Magic Pill

by Johann Hari • 2024

Weight-loss drugs finally work. That they're needed at all indicts the food system they bypass.

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🏥 Obesity Epidemic 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Appetite Regulation 🌽 Food System Critique 📋 Food Policy

Magic Pill

Weight-loss drugs finally work. That they're needed at all indicts the food system they bypass.

by Johann Hari 2024 320 pages

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9k+ ratings

🏥 Obesity Epidemic 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Appetite Regulation 🌽 Food System Critique 📋 Food Policy

Six Easy Pieces

by Richard P. Feynman • 1994

Six core physics lessons on atoms, energy, gravity, and the quantum world's strangest behavior.

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🧱 Foundational Physics ⚛️ Atomic Theory 🍎 Classical Physics 🌌 Quantum Mechanics 🔬 Scientific Method

Six Easy Pieces

Six core physics lessons on atoms, energy, gravity, and the quantum world's strangest behavior.

by Richard P. Feynman 1994 138 pages

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🧱 Foundational Physics ⚛️ Atomic Theory 🍎 Classical Physics 🌌 Quantum Mechanics 🔬 Scientific Method

Pussypedia

by Zoe Mendelson • 2021

The word pussy reclaimed as an inclusive shame-destroying map of the full pelvic anatomy.

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🏫 Sex Education 🩺 Feminist Health 📖 Body Literacy 🧠 Pleasure Anatomy 💬 Destigmatizing Sex

Pussypedia

The word pussy reclaimed as an inclusive shame-destroying map of the full pelvic anatomy.

by Zoe Mendelson 2021 432 pages

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474 ratings

🏫 Sex Education 🩺 Feminist Health 📖 Body Literacy 🧠 Pleasure Anatomy 💬 Destigmatizing Sex

A Silent Fire

by Shilpa Ravella • 2022

Chronic inflammation links heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Your next meal turns it up or down.

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🔥 Chronic Inflammation 🥗 Anti-Inflammatory Diet 🧬 Immune System 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧓 Healthy Aging

A Silent Fire

Chronic inflammation links heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Your next meal turns it up or down.

by Shilpa Ravella 2022 368 pages

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500+ ratings

🔥 Chronic Inflammation 🥗 Anti-Inflammatory Diet 🧬 Immune System 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧓 Healthy Aging

Fluke

by Brian Klaas • 2024

Your brain evolved to hide chance from you. Chaos science reveals what you are missing.

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🦋 Chaos Theory 🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Historical Contingency

Fluke

Your brain evolved to hide chance from you. Chaos science reveals what you are missing.

by Brian Klaas 2024 335 pages

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4k+ ratings

🦋 Chaos Theory 🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Historical Contingency

The New Menopause

by Mary Claire Haver • 2026

The menopause treatment your doctor probably fears, backed by the data they probably missed.

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🩺 Menopause Management 🔬 Hormonal Health 💊 Hormone Therapy 📋 Self-Advocacy In Medicine 📅 Perimenopause

The New Menopause

The menopause treatment your doctor probably fears, backed by the data they probably missed.

by Mary Claire Haver 2026 304 pages

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🩺 Menopause Management 🔬 Hormonal Health 💊 Hormone Therapy 📋 Self-Advocacy In Medicine 📅 Perimenopause

God Is Not Great

by Christopher Hitchens • 2007

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

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🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

God Is Not Great

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

by Christopher Hitchens 2007 307 pages

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100k+ ratings

🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

Criminology

by Tim Newburn • 2007

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

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📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime 🛡️ Crime Prevention 🏙️ Environmental Criminology

Criminology

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

by Tim Newburn 2007 1048 pages

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234 ratings

📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime 🛡️ Crime Prevention 🏙️ Environmental Criminology

Creativity

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi • 1996

Creativity requires three things, and none of them is genius.

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🧩 Positive Psychology 🏔️ Peak Performance 🔀 Cognitive Flexibility 🔗 Interdisciplinary Ideas 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation

Creativity

Creativity requires three things, and none of them is genius.

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1996 466 pages

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5k+ ratings

🧩 Positive Psychology 🏔️ Peak Performance 🔀 Cognitive Flexibility 🔗 Interdisciplinary Ideas 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation

The Porn Myth

by Matt Fradd • 2017

Porn rewires the brain like addiction, erodes real intimacy, and exploits its performers.

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🧠 Pornography Addiction 🔗 Sexual Addiction 🧬 Neuroscience Of Addiction ✊ Anti-Porn Feminism ⚖️ Sexual Ethics

The Porn Myth

Porn rewires the brain like addiction, erodes real intimacy, and exploits its performers.

by Matt Fradd 2017 280 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Pornography Addiction 🔗 Sexual Addiction 🧬 Neuroscience Of Addiction ✊ Anti-Porn Feminism ⚖️ Sexual Ethics

The Real Happy Pill

by Anders Hansen • 2016

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

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🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Dementia Prevention ⚡ Stress Biology

The Real Happy Pill

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

by Anders Hansen 2016 233 pages

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7k+ ratings

🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Dementia Prevention ⚡ Stress Biology

The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki • 2004

Four rules make crowds smarter than experts. Most organizations break every one of them.

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🧠 Collective Intelligence 🧪 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Decision Making 🌐 Cognitive Diversity 📈 Market Efficiency

The Wisdom of Crowds

Four rules make crowds smarter than experts. Most organizations break every one of them.

by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages

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24k+ ratings

🧠 Collective Intelligence 🧪 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Decision Making 🌐 Cognitive Diversity 📈 Market Efficiency

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

by Thomas E. Woods Jr. • 2005

Universities, science, and human rights emerged not despite the Catholic Church but because of it.

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⛪ Catholic History 📚 Intellectual History 🏰 Medieval Studies 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Universities, science, and human rights emerged not despite the Catholic Church but because of it.

by Thomas E. Woods Jr. 2005 312 pages

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3k+ ratings

⛪ Catholic History 📚 Intellectual History 🏰 Medieval Studies 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization

Dissolving Illusions

by Suzanne Humphries • 2013

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

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🏥 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Controversy 🏘️ Public Health 🚰 Sanitation And Health 🦠 Disease And Society

Dissolving Illusions

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

by Suzanne Humphries 2013 530 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏥 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Controversy 🏘️ Public Health 🚰 Sanitation And Health 🦠 Disease And Society

Right Kind of Wrong

by Amy C. Edmondson • 2023

Two kinds of failure to prevent, one kind to pursue. The difference is where innovation lives.

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🛡️ Psychological Safety 📉 Learning From Failure 💡 Innovation Culture 🔗 Systems Thinking 🧪 Experimentation Culture

Right Kind of Wrong

Two kinds of failure to prevent, one kind to pursue. The difference is where innovation lives.

by Amy C. Edmondson 2023 361 pages

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2k+ ratings

🛡️ Psychological Safety 📉 Learning From Failure 💡 Innovation Culture 🔗 Systems Thinking 🧪 Experimentation Culture

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

by Richard P. Feynman • 1964

A comb's spark to a star's light: the one logic Feynman used to rebuild physics.

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🧲 Electromagnetism ⚛️ Modern Physics 🏛️ Classical Physics 🌊 Wave-Particle Duality 🔥 Statistical Mechanics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

A comb's spark to a star's light: the one logic Feynman used to rebuild physics.

by Richard P. Feynman 1964 1552 pages

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8k+ ratings

🧲 Electromagnetism ⚛️ Modern Physics 🏛️ Classical Physics 🌊 Wave-Particle Duality 🔥 Statistical Mechanics

Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 2001

Your trading success is mostly luck, your guru a survivor, your explanations post-hoc fairy tales.

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🏦 Financial Markets 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎲 Probability Theory 🤯 Behavioral Economics ⚖️ Risk Management

Fooled by Randomness

Your trading success is mostly luck, your guru a survivor, your explanations post-hoc fairy tales.

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2001 312 pages

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71k+ ratings

🏦 Financial Markets 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎲 Probability Theory 🤯 Behavioral Economics ⚖️ Risk Management

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

by Otto F. Kernberg • 1975

Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.

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🧠 Personality Disorders 👤 Object Relations 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms 🌊 Borderline Personality 🪞 Narcissistic Personality

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.

by Otto F. Kernberg 1975 376 pages

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203 ratings

🧠 Personality Disorders 👤 Object Relations 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms 🌊 Borderline Personality 🪞 Narcissistic Personality

The Human Zoo

by Desmond Morris • 1969

Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.

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🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🐒 Human Ethology 🦒 Captivity Analogy 👑 Dominance Hierarchies 📊 Status Signaling

The Human Zoo

Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.

by Desmond Morris 1969 320 pages

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3k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🐒 Human Ethology 🦒 Captivity Analogy 👑 Dominance Hierarchies 📊 Status Signaling

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis

by David Aronson • 2006

Most technical analysis is untestable folklore. The case for rebuilding it as a science.

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📈 Financial Markets 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Scientific Method 📊 Statistical Thinking 🤖 Trading Systems

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis

Most technical analysis is untestable folklore. The case for rebuilding it as a science.

by David Aronson 2006 544 pages

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153 ratings

📈 Financial Markets 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Scientific Method 📊 Statistical Thinking 🤖 Trading Systems

Imminent

by Luis Elizondo • 2024

The Pentagon's UFO chief reveals crash retrievals, non-human remains, and the decades-old coverup.

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🕵️ Military Intelligence 🛸 Ufo Disclosure 📂 Government Coverups 💥 Crash Retrievals ✈️ Aerospace Anomalies

Imminent

The Pentagon's UFO chief reveals crash retrievals, non-human remains, and the decades-old coverup.

by Luis Elizondo 2024 275 pages

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8k+ ratings

🕵️ Military Intelligence 🛸 Ufo Disclosure 📂 Government Coverups 💥 Crash Retrievals ✈️ Aerospace Anomalies

1491

by Charles C. Mann • 2005

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

1491

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

by Charles C. Mann 2005 563 pages

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96k+ ratings

🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

by Alfred Adler • 1920

A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.

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🧠 Psychodynamic Theory 🏥 Clinical Psychology 🌱 Humanistic Psychology 🤝 Social Connectedness 👶 Early Childhood

The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.

by Alfred Adler 1920 528 pages

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500+ ratings

🧠 Psychodynamic Theory 🏥 Clinical Psychology 🌱 Humanistic Psychology 🤝 Social Connectedness 👶 Early Childhood

Basic Mathematics

by Serge Lang • 1988

From integers to hyperbolas: a systematic build-up of every idea you need before calculus.

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📐 Pre-Calculus 📏 Plane Geometry 📈 Coordinate Geometry 🔺 Trigonometry 🔢 Number Systems

Basic Mathematics

From integers to hyperbolas: a systematic build-up of every idea you need before calculus.

by Serge Lang 1988 496 pages

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181 ratings

📐 Pre-Calculus 📏 Plane Geometry 📈 Coordinate Geometry 🔺 Trigonometry 🔢 Number Systems

The Hidden Life of Trees

by Peter Wohlleben • 2015

A forester reveals trees are social, caring parents that communicate through an underground network.

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🌳 Forest Ecology 🌿 Plant Communication 🍄 Fungal Symbiosis 🧠 Plant Intelligence 🌲 Old-Growth Forests

The Hidden Life of Trees

A forester reveals trees are social, caring parents that communicate through an underground network.

by Peter Wohlleben 2015 272 pages

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89k+ ratings

🌳 Forest Ecology 🌿 Plant Communication 🍄 Fungal Symbiosis 🧠 Plant Intelligence 🌲 Old-Growth Forests

Cryptoassets

by Chris Burniske • 2017

Treat crypto like an asset class, not a bet: how to value, size, and survive it.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency Investing 📊 Alternative Assets ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🧮 Asset Allocation 🔍 Fundamental Analysis

Cryptoassets

Treat crypto like an asset class, not a bet: how to value, size, and survive it.

by Chris Burniske 2017 523 pages

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2k+ ratings

🪙 Cryptocurrency Investing 📊 Alternative Assets ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🧮 Asset Allocation 🔍 Fundamental Analysis

Attention Span

by Gloria Mark • 2023

Screen attention spans dropped from 150 seconds to 47. Why, and how to restore them.

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🖥️ Digital Attention ⚡ Interruption Management 📱 Screen Habits 💰 Attention Economics 💼 Knowledge Workers

Attention Span

Screen attention spans dropped from 150 seconds to 47. Why, and how to restore them.

by Gloria Mark 2023 400 pages

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1k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Attention ⚡ Interruption Management 📱 Screen Habits 💰 Attention Economics 💼 Knowledge Workers

Full Catastrophe Living

by Jon Kabat-Zinn • 1990

A mindfulness program that retrains attention so stress, pain, and illness lose their grip.

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🧘 Mindfulness Practice 😌 Stress Reduction 🧠 Mind-Body Medicine ☸️ Secular Buddhism 🏥 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Full Catastrophe Living

A mindfulness program that retrains attention so stress, pain, and illness lose their grip.

by Jon Kabat-Zinn 1990 720 pages

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16k+ ratings

🧘 Mindfulness Practice 😌 Stress Reduction 🧠 Mind-Body Medicine ☸️ Secular Buddhism 🏥 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Expected Goals

by Rory Smith • 2022

Football said it couldn't be measured. Gambling syndicates and xG proved otherwise.

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🧮 Football Analytics 🎲 Sports Betting ⚾ Moneyball 📰 Data Journalism 🔄 Organizational Change

Expected Goals

Football said it couldn't be measured. Gambling syndicates and xG proved otherwise.

by Rory Smith 2022 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧮 Football Analytics 🎲 Sports Betting ⚾ Moneyball 📰 Data Journalism 🔄 Organizational Change

Why We Remember

by Charan Ranganath • 2024

Your memory was never built for accuracy. It was built for what comes next.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📚 Learning Science 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💭 How Memory Works 🪞 Memory And Identity

Why We Remember

Your memory was never built for accuracy. It was built for what comes next.

by Charan Ranganath 2024 304 pages

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3k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📚 Learning Science 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💭 How Memory Works 🪞 Memory And Identity

Rebuilding Milo

by Aaron Horschig • 2021

Your MRI is probably wrong. Find what movement triggers your pain, then rebuild from there.

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🏋️ Strength Training 🩹 Injury Rehabilitation 🔍 Movement Screening 🧠 Pain Science 🦴 Spinal Health

Rebuilding Milo

Your MRI is probably wrong. Find what movement triggers your pain, then rebuild from there.

by Aaron Horschig 2021 400 pages

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500+ ratings

🏋️ Strength Training 🩹 Injury Rehabilitation 🔍 Movement Screening 🧠 Pain Science 🦴 Spinal Health

Corruptible

by Brian Klaas • 2021

Power corrupts, but that is only half the problem. The other half: corruptible people chase power.

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😈 Dark Triad Leadership 🧠 Psychology Of Power 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏢 Organizational Design 🗳️ Power Accountability

Corruptible

Power corrupts, but that is only half the problem. The other half: corruptible people chase power.

by Brian Klaas 2021 319 pages

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3k+ ratings

😈 Dark Triad Leadership 🧠 Psychology Of Power 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏢 Organizational Design 🗳️ Power Accountability

Lifespan

by David A. Sinclair • 2019

Aging is a disease of lost epigenetic information, and the first treatments are already here.

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🧬 Longevity Science 🧫 Epigenetics 🥗 Caloric Restriction 🏃 Longevity Lifestyle 💊 Aging As Disease

Lifespan

Aging is a disease of lost epigenetic information, and the first treatments are already here.

by David A. Sinclair 2019 433 pages

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26k+ ratings

🧬 Longevity Science 🧫 Epigenetics 🥗 Caloric Restriction 🏃 Longevity Lifestyle 💊 Aging As Disease

Hunt, Gather, Parent

by Michaeleen Doucleff • 2021

Toddlers want to help, not be entertained. Ancient parenting wisdom the West forgot.

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🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🧒 Innate Helpfulness 🤝 Family Teamwork 🪵 Minimalist Parenting 👁️ Observational Learning

Hunt, Gather, Parent

Toddlers want to help, not be entertained. Ancient parenting wisdom the West forgot.

by Michaeleen Doucleff 2021 352 pages

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33k+ ratings

🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🧒 Innate Helpfulness 🤝 Family Teamwork 🪵 Minimalist Parenting 👁️ Observational Learning

Naked Economics

by Charles Wheelan • 2002

Markets are brilliant and broken. Incentives explain why. Economics without the equations.

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📚 Economic Literacy 🧭 Incentives And Behavior ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Globalization And Trade 🌱 Development Economics

Naked Economics

Markets are brilliant and broken. Incentives explain why. Economics without the equations.

by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages

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19k+ ratings

📚 Economic Literacy 🧭 Incentives And Behavior ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Globalization And Trade 🌱 Development Economics

Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy

by Brad Schoenfeld • 2016

Three mechanisms build muscle. The research on training all three for maximum size.

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🏗️ Muscle Building 💪 Bodybuilding 🏋️ Resistance Training 🔬 Exercise Science 🥩 Sports Nutrition

Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy

Three mechanisms build muscle. The research on training all three for maximum size.

by Brad Schoenfeld 2016 224 pages

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390 ratings

🏗️ Muscle Building 💪 Bodybuilding 🏋️ Resistance Training 🔬 Exercise Science 🥩 Sports Nutrition

Neuromarketing

by Patrick Renvoisé • 2005

The reptile brain decides. Your pitch aims at the wrong one. Aim lower and sell.

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🧠 Sales Psychology 🧪 Neuromarketing 🛒 Consumer Behavior 🎯 Persuasion Techniques 👁️ Visual Persuasion

Neuromarketing

The reptile brain decides. Your pitch aims at the wrong one. Aim lower and sell.

by Patrick Renvoisé 2005 256 pages

3.90

500+ ratings

🧠 Sales Psychology 🧪 Neuromarketing 🛒 Consumer Behavior 🎯 Persuasion Techniques 👁️ Visual Persuasion

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

by Dan Ariely • 2012

Everyone cheats a little and still feels honest. The hidden forces that widen that gap.

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🔬 Behavioral Economics ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🪞 Self-Deception 🦠 Social Contagion

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

Everyone cheats a little and still feels honest. The hidden forces that widen that gap.

by Dan Ariely 2012 264 pages

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16k+ ratings

🔬 Behavioral Economics ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🪞 Self-Deception 🦠 Social Contagion

Social Engineering

by Christopher Hadnagy • 2010

Your firewall is fine. Your people are the vulnerability, and this is how attackers exploit them.

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🕵️ Social Engineering 🔒 Cybersecurity 🧠 Psychological Influence 🎭 Deception 👥 Social Psychology

Social Engineering

Your firewall is fine. Your people are the vulnerability, and this is how attackers exploit them.

by Christopher Hadnagy 2010 410 pages

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3k+ ratings

🕵️ Social Engineering 🔒 Cybersecurity 🧠 Psychological Influence 🎭 Deception 👥 Social Psychology

Built from Broken

by Scott H Hogan • 2021

Your joints need load, not rest: training your way out of chronic pain.

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🦴 Joint Health 🩹 Injury Recovery 🧬 Connective Tissue 🤸 Mobility Training 🧠 Pain Science

Built from Broken

Your joints need load, not rest: training your way out of chronic pain.

by Scott H Hogan 2021 614 pages

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1k+ ratings

🦴 Joint Health 🩹 Injury Recovery 🧬 Connective Tissue 🤸 Mobility Training 🧠 Pain Science

Freedom Evolves

by Daniel C. Dennett • 2003

Evolution didn't just build bodies. It built choice itself, and determinism was never the enemy.

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🧠 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Compatibilism 🧬 Evolutionary Philosophy 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Distributed Cognition

Freedom Evolves

Evolution didn't just build bodies. It built choice itself, and determinism was never the enemy.

by Daniel C. Dennett 2003 368 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Compatibilism 🧬 Evolutionary Philosophy 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Distributed Cognition

Unfair

by Adam Benforado • 2015

Justice assumes rational minds and perfect memories. Neuroscience shows we have neither.

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Implicit Bias ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🗣️ False Confessions

Unfair

Justice assumes rational minds and perfect memories. Neuroscience shows we have neither.

by Adam Benforado 2015 379 pages

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1k+ ratings

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Implicit Bias ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🗣️ False Confessions

The China Study

by T. Colin Campbell • 2004

Animal protein promotes cancer. A landmark study proved it. The system buried the finding.

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🌱 Plant-Based Nutrition 🥦 Whole Food Plant-Based 🔄 Chronic Disease Reversal 🧬 Nutritional Epigenetics 🏭 Food Industry Politics

The China Study

Animal protein promotes cancer. A landmark study proved it. The system buried the finding.

by T. Colin Campbell 2004 496 pages

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31k+ ratings

🌱 Plant-Based Nutrition 🥦 Whole Food Plant-Based 🔄 Chronic Disease Reversal 🧬 Nutritional Epigenetics 🏭 Food Industry Politics

The Songs of Trees

by David George Haskell • 2017

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

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🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🧠 Plant Intelligence

The Songs of Trees

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

by David George Haskell 2017 304 pages

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🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🧠 Plant Intelligence

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