Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Popular Science
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
Birds Aren't Real: The true story of mass avian murder and the largest surveillance campaign in U.S. history by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
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Category: Popular Science
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history - and how to fight back.Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults.In the 1970s, the United States government kille ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
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Category: Popular Science
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon
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Category: Popular Science
Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water. A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'sile ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
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Category: Popular Science
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI by Susie Alegre
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Category: Popular Science
A highly topical manifesto about what it means to be human in the age of AI by a leading barrister. No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love. In this urgent polemic, leading ...Show more
Come Together: The Science (and Art) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski
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Category: Popular Science
What does it really take to create lasting sexual connections in long-term relationships? Most couples struggle at some point to maintain their sexual connection. But a lot of the advice we are given on sex is either not very good or steeped in cultural assumptions and expectations that can end up hurti ...Show more
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi - Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite by Chris Balakrishnan; Matt Wasowski; Kristen Orr (Illustrator)
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Category: Popular Science
In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 ...Show more
The UFO Paradox - The Celestial and Symbolic World of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena by Keith Thompson
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Category: Popular Science
Examines both the physical and the spiritual sides of the UFO debate - Looks at witnesses' reports as well as the theories of skeptics, revealing how UFOs represent a call from the cosmos to expand our understanding of reality - Explores UFO encounters against the backdrop of visionary experienc ...Show more
A Little History of Psychology by Nicky Hayes
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand ...Show more
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
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Category: Popular Science
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood. A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form - yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and l ...Show more
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
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Category: Popular Science
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us mat ...Show more