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October 27, 2018

Review: Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a thorough look into the ideas and institutions that have built modern humanity with plentiful examples to…

August 31, 2018

Review: Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…

August 27, 2018

Review: Surely, You Are Joking, Mr Feynman, Richard P. Feynman

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a wonderful moment when one reads the words of another person, and in these finds that they…

July 28, 2018

Review: Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg

Rating: 4 out of 5 I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one — there are plenty of facts, but also stories of a more personal…

June 29, 2018

Review: Superforecasting, Philip E. Tetlock

Rating: 4 out of 5 I really enjoyed this one — it has both depth and focus, and the structure of the novel is…

June 22, 2018

Review: The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

Rating: 2 out of 5 This is a hard one to review. I enjoyed the subject, but not the author’s take on it. Taking…

June 21, 2018

Review: Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Carl Sagan

Rating: 3 out of 5 This was a weird one: a book dedicated to explaining why we sent a certain selection of our combined…

June 19, 2018

Review: Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha

Rating: 5 out of 5 Sex. What a loaded concept in this modern world… And, no matter where one looks, one is made to…

March 25, 2018

Review: ‘Notes on Nationalism’, George Orwell

Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am, normally, not in the habit of posting quotes specifically from…

February 15, 2018

Review: ‘The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor’, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a moving story, and Garcia Marquez’s…

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