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Science

Science shapes every aspect of our world, from the atoms that form our bodies to the mysteries of consciousness and human behavior. Here you'll find engaging explorations of evolution, physics, psychology, and the natural forces that govern both our universe and ourselves.

Science Book Summaries

Beyond Training
by Ben Greenfield • 2014
Your training ages you. The balance, recovery, diet system for a durable body and lifelong fitness.
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1k+
🏃 Endurance Training🍽️ Sports Nutrition😴 Recovery Optimization⚖️ Polarized Training📊 Quantified Self
Beyond Training Summary
Beyond Training
Your training ages you. The balance, recovery, diet system for a durable body and lifelong fitness.
by Ben Greenfield 2014 480 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
🏃 Endurance Training🍽️ Sports Nutrition😴 Recovery Optimization⚖️ Polarized Training📊 Quantified Self
The Invisible Gorilla
by Christopher Chabris • 2010
Your memory rewrites the past, your confidence hides incompetence, and there's a gorilla nobody saw.
3.91
14k+
🧠 Cognitive Biases👀 Attention Management💭 Memory Fallibility😎 Overconfidence🔍 Scientific Skepticism
The Invisible Gorilla Summary
The Invisible Gorilla
Your memory rewrites the past, your confidence hides incompetence, and there's a gorilla nobody saw.
by Christopher Chabris 2010 295 pages
3.91
14k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Biases👀 Attention Management💭 Memory Fallibility😎 Overconfidence🔍 Scientific Skepticism
The Gifts of Athena
by Joel Mokyr • 2002
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
4.02
136
📈 Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🧠 Knowledge Economies⚙️ Innovation Systems🔬 Science And Industry
The Gifts of Athena Summary
The Gifts of Athena
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
by Joel Mokyr 2002 384 pages
4.02
136 ratings
📈 Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🧠 Knowledge Economies⚙️ Innovation Systems🔬 Science And Industry
The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak • 2009
When the universe was just the Milky Way: the instruments and rivalries that found the rest.
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🔭 History Of Astronomy🌌 Modern Cosmology🔄 Paradigm Shifts📡 Telescopic Astronomy⚔️ Scientific Rivalry
The Day We Found the Universe Summary
The Day We Found the Universe
When the universe was just the Milky Way: the instruments and rivalries that found the rest.
by Marcia Bartusiak 2009 368 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
🔭 History Of Astronomy🌌 Modern Cosmology🔄 Paradigm Shifts📡 Telescopic Astronomy⚔️ Scientific Rivalry
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
by David DiSalvo • 2011
Your brain favors certainty, shortcuts, and approval. The biases to catch and the override rules.
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3k+
🧠 Cognitive Biases📉 Behavioral Economics🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⏳ Delayed Gratification🎮 Self-Control
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite Summary
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
Your brain favors certainty, shortcuts, and approval. The biases to catch and the override rules.
by David DiSalvo 2011 309 pages
3.83
3k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Biases📉 Behavioral Economics🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⏳ Delayed Gratification🎮 Self-Control
Q is for Quantum
by Terry Rudolph • 2017
Forget the math: colored balls explain superposition, entanglement, and why quantum computers work.
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💻 Quantum Computing🔬 Popular Physics🔗 Entanglement🌐 Nonlocality🧠 Quantum Foundations
Q is for Quantum Summary
Q is for Quantum
Forget the math: colored balls explain superposition, entanglement, and why quantum computers work.
by Terry Rudolph 2017 166 pages
3.59
222 ratings
💻 Quantum Computing🔬 Popular Physics🔗 Entanglement🌐 Nonlocality🧠 Quantum Foundations
Mirroring People
by Marco Iacoboni • 2008
Why you flinch when someone else is struck: your brain rehearses everything it sees.
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🧠 Social Neuroscience💞 Empathy Science👶 Social Learning🏃 Embodied Cognition🗣️ Evolution Of Language
Mirroring People Summary
Mirroring People
Why you flinch when someone else is struck: your brain rehearses everything it sees.
by Marco Iacoboni 2008 320 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
🧠 Social Neuroscience💞 Empathy Science👶 Social Learning🏃 Embodied Cognition🗣️ Evolution Of Language
The Enlightenment
by John Robertson • 2015
It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.
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🧠 Intellectual History🏛️ Western Philosophy📜 Enlightenment Studies🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment📈 Idea Of Progress
The Enlightenment Summary
The Enlightenment
It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.
by John Robertson 2015 147 pages
3.56
302 ratings
🧠 Intellectual History🏛️ Western Philosophy📜 Enlightenment Studies🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment📈 Idea Of Progress
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table
by Jeffrey A. Kottler • 2003
Unusual patients forced the best therapists to abandon the textbook. What they improvised instead.
3.88
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🔍 Unusual Case Studies💡 Therapy Breakthroughs🤝 Relational Healing👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems🎨 Creative Interventions
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table Summary
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table
Unusual patients forced the best therapists to abandon the textbook. What they improvised instead.
by Jeffrey A. Kottler 2003 325 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
🔍 Unusual Case Studies💡 Therapy Breakthroughs🤝 Relational Healing👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems🎨 Creative Interventions
Hidden History
by Brian Haughton • 2007
Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.
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🏛️ Lost Civilizations🔍 Ancient Mysteries⛏️ Alternative Archaeology⚙️ Ancient Technology⭐ Archaeoastronomy
Hidden History Summary
Hidden History
Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.
by Brian Haughton 2007 272 pages
3.71
233 ratings
🏛️ Lost Civilizations🔍 Ancient Mysteries⛏️ Alternative Archaeology⚙️ Ancient Technology⭐ Archaeoastronomy
NeuroLogic
by Eliezer J. Sternberg • 2016
Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.
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🧠 Unconscious Processing🔄 Dual Process Theory💭 Reconstructive Memory🏋️ Mental Rehearsal🪞 Self And Identity
NeuroLogic Summary
NeuroLogic
Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.
by Eliezer J. Sternberg 2016 320 pages
4.26
500+ ratings
🧠 Unconscious Processing🔄 Dual Process Theory💭 Reconstructive Memory🏋️ Mental Rehearsal🪞 Self And Identity
Wired for Culture
by Mark Pagel • 2012
Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.
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🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology🔄 Cultural Evolution👥 Social Learning📚 Cumulative Culture🤝 Group Cooperation
Wired for Culture Summary
Wired for Culture
Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.
by Mark Pagel 2012 432 pages
3.86
296 ratings
🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology🔄 Cultural Evolution👥 Social Learning📚 Cumulative Culture🤝 Group Cooperation
Super Genes
by Deepak Chopra • 2015
Your genes are not stone. The levers, from diet to meditation, that rewire your biology.
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1k+
🧬 Epigenetics🦠 Microbiome🧘 Mind-Body Connection🌿 Holistic Health🍎 Lifestyle Medicine
Super Genes Summary
Super Genes
Your genes are not stone. The levers, from diet to meditation, that rewire your biology.
by Deepak Chopra 2015 336 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
🧬 Epigenetics🦠 Microbiome🧘 Mind-Body Connection🌿 Holistic Health🍎 Lifestyle Medicine
Unbelievable
by Stacy Horn • 2009
The Duke lab proved telepathy with odds of one in an octillion. Science responded with silence.
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500+
🔮 Parapsychology🔬 History Of Science🧠 Consciousness Studies👻 Afterlife Research🧪 Experimental Psychology
Unbelievable Summary
Unbelievable
The Duke lab proved telepathy with odds of one in an octillion. Science responded with silence.
by Stacy Horn 2009 289 pages
3.27
500+ ratings
🔮 Parapsychology🔬 History Of Science🧠 Consciousness Studies👻 Afterlife Research🧪 Experimental Psychology
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes
by Dave MacLeod • 2009
What every stuck climber does wrong, and the tactical, mental, and physical fixes that work.
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1k+
🧗 Rock Climbing🏋️ Sports Training🗺️ Self-Coaching🧠 Sport Psychology😱 Fear Of Falling
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes Summary
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes
What every stuck climber does wrong, and the tactical, mental, and physical fixes that work.
by Dave MacLeod 2009 166 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
🧗 Rock Climbing🏋️ Sports Training🗺️ Self-Coaching🧠 Sport Psychology😱 Fear Of Falling
Rewiring Education
by John D. Couch • 2018
Schools run on factory logic. An Apple insider's playbook for redesigning them with technology.
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📚 Education Reform💻 Edtech🧩 Personalized Learning🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning👨‍💻 Coding Education
Rewiring Education Summary
Rewiring Education
Schools run on factory logic. An Apple insider's playbook for redesigning them with technology.
by John D. Couch 2018 272 pages
3.79
266 ratings
📚 Education Reform💻 Edtech🧩 Personalized Learning🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning👨‍💻 Coding Education
The End of Illness
by David B. Agus • 2011
Stop illness before it starts using your own data: a personalized holistic system from a top doctor.
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2k+
🩺 Preventive Medicine🌿 Lifestyle Medicine⏰ Circadian Rhythms🔥 Chronic Inflammation🥗 Personalized Nutrition
The End of Illness Summary
The End of Illness
Stop illness before it starts using your own data: a personalized holistic system from a top doctor.
by David B. Agus 2011 288 pages
3.48
2k+ ratings
🩺 Preventive Medicine🌿 Lifestyle Medicine⏰ Circadian Rhythms🔥 Chronic Inflammation🥗 Personalized Nutrition
An Epidemic of Absence
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff • 2012
Parasites taught immune systems what to ignore. Without them, the body mistakes itself for a threat.
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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine🩺 Autoimmune Disease🧫 Microbiome Science🧹 Hygiene Hypothesis⚖️ Immune Regulation
An Epidemic of Absence Summary
An Epidemic of Absence
Parasites taught immune systems what to ignore. Without them, the body mistakes itself for a threat.
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff 2012 400 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Medicine🩺 Autoimmune Disease🧫 Microbiome Science🧹 Hygiene Hypothesis⚖️ Immune Regulation
Magnificent Mind at Any Age
by Daniel G. Amen • 2008
The brain circuits that drive or derail your life, and the natural protocols to balance them.
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500+
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Cognitive Flexibility🏋️ Resilience Training⚡ Dopamine And Motivation🔬 Neuroscience Self-Help
Magnificent Mind at Any Age Summary
Magnificent Mind at Any Age
The brain circuits that drive or derail your life, and the natural protocols to balance them.
by Daniel G. Amen 2008 352 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Cognitive Flexibility🏋️ Resilience Training⚡ Dopamine And Motivation🔬 Neuroscience Self-Help
The Power of Experiments
by Michael Luca • 2020
eBay's experiment killed $50 million in ads. Here's how to run yours.
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246
🧪 Experimental Methods🧠 Behavioral Economics📊 A/B Testing🔍 Causal Inference🤝 Nudge Theory
The Power of Experiments Summary
The Power of Experiments
eBay's experiment killed $50 million in ads. Here's how to run yours.
by Michael Luca 2020 211 pages
3.46
246 ratings
🧪 Experimental Methods🧠 Behavioral Economics📊 A/B Testing🔍 Causal Inference🤝 Nudge Theory
A Short History of the World
by Christopher Lascelles • 2011
Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.
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1k+
🗺️ World History🌌 Big History📚 Concise History🔄 Civilization Cycles⚔️ Empire And Conquest
A Short History of the World Summary
A Short History of the World
Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.
by Christopher Lascelles 2011 241 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
🗺️ World History🌌 Big History📚 Concise History🔄 Civilization Cycles⚔️ Empire And Conquest
A Mind of Its Own
by Cordelia Fine • 2005
Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.
3.86
2k+
🧠 Cognitive Biases🤥 Self-Deception⚖️ Moral Psychology📊 Decision Science🤔 Motivated Reasoning
A Mind of Its Own Summary
A Mind of Its Own
Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.
by Cordelia Fine 2005 224 pages
3.86
2k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Biases🤥 Self-Deception⚖️ Moral Psychology📊 Decision Science🤔 Motivated Reasoning
Small Things Considered
by Henry Petroski • 2003
Why nothing works perfectly: the constraints hiding inside every object you use.
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📐 Everyday Design🔧 Engineering Philosophy⚖️ Design Constraints🏛️ Form And Function🔄 Iterative Improvement
Small Things Considered Summary
Small Things Considered
Why nothing works perfectly: the constraints hiding inside every object you use.
by Henry Petroski 2003 304 pages
3.40
334 ratings
📐 Everyday Design🔧 Engineering Philosophy⚖️ Design Constraints🏛️ Form And Function🔄 Iterative Improvement
7 Secrets of Persuasion
by James C. Crimmins • 2016
The nonconscious brain decides before you do. The persuasion techniques that reach it first.
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🧠 Neuromarketing🗣️ Persuasion Techniques⚡ Automatic Thinking🔄 Behavior Change❤️ Emotional Appeals
7 Secrets of Persuasion Summary
7 Secrets of Persuasion
The nonconscious brain decides before you do. The persuasion techniques that reach it first.
by James C. Crimmins 2016 225 pages
4.07
166 ratings
🧠 Neuromarketing🗣️ Persuasion Techniques⚡ Automatic Thinking🔄 Behavior Change❤️ Emotional Appeals
A Planet to Win
by Kate Aronoff • 2019
What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?
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📗 Green New Deal🌍 Climate Justice🌱 Ecosocialism🌹 Democratic Socialism⚡ Energy Transition
A Planet to Win Summary
A Planet to Win
What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?
by Kate Aronoff 2019 208 pages
4.07
500+ ratings
📗 Green New Deal🌍 Climate Justice🌱 Ecosocialism🌹 Democratic Socialism⚡ Energy Transition
On Task
by David Badre • 2020
Your brain knows what to do but an ancient bottleneck stands between knowing and acting.
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🧠 Executive Function🔬 Cognitive Science🧪 Cognitive Neuroscience👁️ Attention Management💾 Working Memory
On Task Summary
On Task
Your brain knows what to do but an ancient bottleneck stands between knowing and acting.
by David Badre 2020 344 pages
3.99
161 ratings
🧠 Executive Function🔬 Cognitive Science🧪 Cognitive Neuroscience👁️ Attention Management💾 Working Memory
Why Woo-Woo Works
by David R. Hamilton • 2021
The data that explains why meditation, Reiki, and crystals work, from a chemist who went looking.
4.01
1k+
🧠 Mind-Body Connection🌿 Integrative Health🧘 Meditation Research💊 Placebo Effect🌌 Consciousness Studies
Why Woo-Woo Works Summary
Why Woo-Woo Works
The data that explains why meditation, Reiki, and crystals work, from a chemist who went looking.
by David R. Hamilton 2021 311 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
🧠 Mind-Body Connection🌿 Integrative Health🧘 Meditation Research💊 Placebo Effect🌌 Consciousness Studies
Focus Groups
by Richard A. Krueger • 1988
How to plan, moderate, and analyze focus groups that yield real insights, not polite conversation.
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128
🧪 Qualitative Research📋 Research Methods🎙️ Interview Methods📊 Qualitative Data Analysis📈 Program Evaluation
Focus Groups Summary
Focus Groups
How to plan, moderate, and analyze focus groups that yield real insights, not polite conversation.
by Richard A. Krueger 1988 320 pages
3.84
128 ratings
🧪 Qualitative Research📋 Research Methods🎙️ Interview Methods📊 Qualitative Data Analysis📈 Program Evaluation
Tribe of Hackers
by Marcus J. Carey • 2019
The cybersecurity insight too many ignore: secure your people, not just your network.
3.90
262
👤 Human Element🔐 Security Fundamentals🌐 Community Building🧠 Continuous Learning📞 Communication Skills
Tribe of Hackers Summary
Tribe of Hackers
The cybersecurity insight too many ignore: secure your people, not just your network.
by Marcus J. Carey 2019 412 pages
3.90
262 ratings
👤 Human Element🔐 Security Fundamentals🌐 Community Building🧠 Continuous Learning📞 Communication Skills
A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)
by Isobel Knight • 2011
Bendy joints are just the start: the full-body guide to EDS hypermobility type.
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251
🏥 Chronic Illness Guides🧬 Connective Tissue Disorders👁️ Invisible Disabilities🔬 Pain Science💪 Physical Therapy
A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type) Summary
A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)
Bendy joints are just the start: the full-body guide to EDS hypermobility type.
by Isobel Knight 2011 320 pages
4.04
251 ratings
🏥 Chronic Illness Guides🧬 Connective Tissue Disorders👁️ Invisible Disabilities🔬 Pain Science💪 Physical Therapy
What the Eyes Don't See
by Mona Hanna-Attisha • 2018
Her data proved Flint's water toxic. The state smeared her and called it a seasonal anomaly.
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9k+
🏭 Environmental Racism🤐 Government Cover-Up🩺 Public Health📢 Whistleblowing🧪 Science Activism
What the Eyes Don't See Summary
What the Eyes Don't See
Her data proved Flint's water toxic. The state smeared her and called it a seasonal anomaly.
by Mona Hanna-Attisha 2018 384 pages
4.33
9k+ ratings
🏭 Environmental Racism🤐 Government Cover-Up🩺 Public Health📢 Whistleblowing🧪 Science Activism
What the Dog Knows
by Cat Warren • 2013
An unmanageable dog and the unlikely solution: training him to find human remains.
3.98
1k+
🐕‍🦺 Working Dogs👃 Olfactory Science🫂 Human-Animal Bond🧠 Animal Cognition🔬 Forensic Science
What the Dog Knows Summary
What the Dog Knows
An unmanageable dog and the unlikely solution: training him to find human remains.
by Cat Warren 2013 352 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
🐕‍🦺 Working Dogs👃 Olfactory Science🫂 Human-Animal Bond🧠 Animal Cognition🔬 Forensic Science
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
by Robert C. Allen • 2009
Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.
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264
🕰️ Economic History🏭 Industrial Revolution⚙️ Technological Change⛏️ Energy History📊 Cliometrics
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective Summary
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.
by Robert C. Allen 2009 342 pages
4.00
264 ratings
🕰️ Economic History🏭 Industrial Revolution⚙️ Technological Change⛏️ Energy History📊 Cliometrics
Your Brain
by Matthew MacDonald • 2008
A manual for the hardware you were born with: how perception, memory, and emotion really work.
3.77
367
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🛠️ Applied Neuroscience⚠️ Brain Limitations
Your Brain Summary
Your Brain
A manual for the hardware you were born with: how perception, memory, and emotion really work.
by Matthew MacDonald 2008 273 pages
3.77
367 ratings
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🛠️ Applied Neuroscience⚠️ Brain Limitations
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by Alex Bellos • 2010
How counting became civilization's greatest invention, and the puzzling patterns it revealed.
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5k+
🧮 Popular Mathematics📜 History Of Numbers🔢 Mathematical Patterns♾️ Infinity🎲 Probability And Chance
Alex's Adventures in Numberland Summary
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
How counting became civilization's greatest invention, and the puzzling patterns it revealed.
by Alex Bellos 2010 448 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
🧮 Popular Mathematics📜 History Of Numbers🔢 Mathematical Patterns♾️ Infinity🎲 Probability And Chance
Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit
by Adelle Davis • 1970
Repair how your cells produce energy, and watch depression, fatigue, and heart risk dissolve.
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🔥 Metabolic Health⚡ Cellular Energy🔄 Evolutionary Mismatch🩺 Functional Medicine🛡️ Preventive Medicine
Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit Summary
Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit
Repair how your cells produce energy, and watch depression, fatigue, and heart risk dissolve.
by Adelle Davis 1970 336 pages
3.96
139 ratings
🔥 Metabolic Health⚡ Cellular Energy🔄 Evolutionary Mismatch🩺 Functional Medicine🛡️ Preventive Medicine
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume • 1748
If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.
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22k+
🔬 Empiricism📚 Epistemology🤔 Skepticism⛓️ Causation🕊️ Free Will
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Summary
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.
by David Hume 1748 91 pages
3.94
22k+ ratings
🔬 Empiricism📚 Epistemology🤔 Skepticism⛓️ Causation🕊️ Free Will
This Idea Must Die
by John Brockman • 2015
175 scientists each nominate one idea to retire, from IQ to the Big Bang itself.
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🔬 Meta-Science🛑 Scientific Dead Ends🕸️ Complexity Science🐦 Emergence🧠 Intelligence Debates
This Idea Must Die Summary
This Idea Must Die
175 scientists each nominate one idea to retire, from IQ to the Big Bang itself.
by John Brockman 2015 568 pages
3.50
1k+ ratings
🔬 Meta-Science🛑 Scientific Dead Ends🕸️ Complexity Science🐦 Emergence🧠 Intelligence Debates
2052
by Jørgen Randers • 2012
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
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355
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning⚡ Energy Transition👶 Demographic Decline
2052 Summary
2052
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
by Jørgen Randers 2012 416 pages
3.95
355 ratings
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning⚡ Energy Transition👶 Demographic Decline
How To Learn And Memorize Math, Numbers, Equations, And Simple Arithmetic
by Anthony Metivier • 2014
Your memory isn't broken. You just haven't built the mental palace for math yet.
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117
🏰 Memory Palaces🧠 Memory Improvement📐 Math Learning🎨 Associative Imagery🔊 Phonetic Mnemonics
How To Learn And Memorize Math, Numbers, Equations, And Simple Arithmetic Summary
How To Learn And Memorize Math, Numbers, Equations, And Simple Arithmetic
Your memory isn't broken. You just haven't built the mental palace for math yet.
by Anthony Metivier 2014 121 pages
3.28
117 ratings
🏰 Memory Palaces🧠 Memory Improvement📐 Math Learning🎨 Associative Imagery🔊 Phonetic Mnemonics
The Upward Spiral Workbook
by Alex Korb • 2019
Reverse depression by rewiring your brain one small action at a time, guided by neuroscience.
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110
🧠 Depression Recovery🧠 Neuroplasticity🎯 Behavioral Activation🏃 Exercise Therapy😴 Sleep Hygiene
The Upward Spiral Workbook Summary
The Upward Spiral Workbook
Reverse depression by rewiring your brain one small action at a time, guided by neuroscience.
by Alex Korb 2019 232 pages
4.32
110 ratings
🧠 Depression Recovery🧠 Neuroplasticity🎯 Behavioral Activation🏃 Exercise Therapy😴 Sleep Hygiene
Movement Matters
by Katy Bowman • 2016
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
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500+
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living🏋️ Functional Movement🌿 Nature Connection
Movement Matters Summary
Movement Matters
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
by Katy Bowman 2016 248 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living🏋️ Functional Movement🌿 Nature Connection
When the Sky Fell
by Rand Flem-Ath • 1995
Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.
3.92
278
⚱️ Lost Civilizations📜 Alternative History🌊 Catastrophism📖 Myth As History🗿 Ancient Anomalies
When the Sky Fell Summary
When the Sky Fell
Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.
by Rand Flem-Ath 1995 179 pages
3.92
278 ratings
⚱️ Lost Civilizations📜 Alternative History🌊 Catastrophism📖 Myth As History🗿 Ancient Anomalies
Curing the Incurable
by Thomas E. Levy • 2002
A vitamin cured sixty straight polio cases. The world forgot. The dosing that erases infections.
4.39
158
🧬 Orthomolecular Medicine💊 Vitamin Therapy⚡ High-Dose Nutrients✨ Antioxidant Therapy🦠 Infectious Disease
Curing the Incurable Summary
Curing the Incurable
A vitamin cured sixty straight polio cases. The world forgot. The dosing that erases infections.
by Thomas E. Levy 2002 518 pages
4.39
158 ratings
🧬 Orthomolecular Medicine💊 Vitamin Therapy⚡ High-Dose Nutrients✨ Antioxidant Therapy🦠 Infectious Disease
World War C
by Sanjay Gupta • 2021
We simulated this exact pandemic. It went exactly as predicted. Why wasn't anyone ready?
4.04
500+
🦠 Pandemic Preparedness🔬 Epidemiology🌍 Global Health💉 Vaccine Science⚖️ Science And Politics
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World War C
We simulated this exact pandemic. It went exactly as predicted. Why wasn't anyone ready?
by Sanjay Gupta 2021 264 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
🦠 Pandemic Preparedness🔬 Epidemiology🌍 Global Health💉 Vaccine Science⚖️ Science And Politics
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker • 1994
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
4.01
22k+
📝 Generative Linguistics👶 Language Acquisition🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Psycholinguistics
The Language Instinct Summary
The Language Instinct
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
by Steven Pinker 1994 448 pages
4.01
22k+ ratings
📝 Generative Linguistics👶 Language Acquisition🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Psycholinguistics
Deception
by Rand Paul • 2023
The lab-leak evidence the NIH buried and the scientific establishment's campaign to dismiss it.
4.47
500+
🦠 Pandemic Origins🤫 Scientific Censorship🕵️ Institutional Cover-Up📣 Whistleblowers🐍 Libertarian Critique
Deception Summary
Deception
The lab-leak evidence the NIH buried and the scientific establishment's campaign to dismiss it.
by Rand Paul 2023 540 pages
4.47
500+ ratings
🦠 Pandemic Origins🤫 Scientific Censorship🕵️ Institutional Cover-Up📣 Whistleblowers🐍 Libertarian Critique
The Birth of the Clinic
by Michel Foucault • 1963
Modern medicine owes less to observation than to a new way of looking at the dead.
3.94
2k+
🏥 History Of Medicine🔬 Medical Epistemology🏛️ Biopolitics👁️ Medical Gaze🏦 Institutional Power
The Birth of the Clinic Summary
The Birth of the Clinic
Modern medicine owes less to observation than to a new way of looking at the dead.
by Michel Foucault 1963 240 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
🏥 History Of Medicine🔬 Medical Epistemology🏛️ Biopolitics👁️ Medical Gaze🏦 Institutional Power
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
by Daniel G. Amen • 2010
Your brain's wiring decides your weight more than your willpower. The method to rewire it.
3.68
2k+
⚖️ Weight Management🍽️ Food And Mood🧠 Brain-Body Connection🔄 Neuroplasticity💭 Cognitive Reframing
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Summary
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
Your brain's wiring decides your weight more than your willpower. The method to rewire it.
by Daniel G. Amen 2010 384 pages
3.68
2k+ ratings
⚖️ Weight Management🍽️ Food And Mood🧠 Brain-Body Connection🔄 Neuroplasticity💭 Cognitive Reframing
Nightmare Fuel
by Nina Nesseth • 2022
What horror films reveal about your brain's fear machinery, and why you keep coming back.
3.82
1k+
🎬 Horror Cinema🧠 Neuroscience Of Fear😰 Cultural Anxieties🔬 Pop Science📖 Genre Studies
Nightmare Fuel Summary
Nightmare Fuel
What horror films reveal about your brain's fear machinery, and why you keep coming back.
by Nina Nesseth 2022 304 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
🎬 Horror Cinema🧠 Neuroscience Of Fear😰 Cultural Anxieties🔬 Pop Science📖 Genre Studies
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