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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Seven Ages of Death
Quo vAIdis
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
Quantum Supremacy
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Selfish Gene
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Bad Science
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Alondra Oubré
...We are long overdue for an update to the empirical scientific evidence that, despite our racial differences, demonstrates humankind’s overarching shared foundations as biological, cultural, and social beings. Awareness of the fascinating research unfolding in the arena of nature–nurture and the human condition promises to be a step in that direction.
Alondra Oubré, Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide

Richard Dawkins
The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive and are therefore fresh. It was macabre habit, in the related Ichneumon wasp, that provoked Darwin to write: 'I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent god would have designedly created the Ich-neumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars...' He might as well have used the example of a french chef boiling lobsters al ...more
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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