Popular Science

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The Seven Ages of Death
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Quo vAIdis
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
Den lodande människan: Havet, djupet och nyfikenheten – essäer
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
Quantum Supremacy
The Universe
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Selfish Gene
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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
The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers by Ruth H FinneganA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksFuzz by Mary Roach
If you like Mary Roach...
58 books — 19 voters
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanMy Brief History by Stephen W. HawkingTesla by Margaret CheneyGenius  by James GleickThe Queen's Conjurer by Benjamin Woolley
Science Biographies
50 books — 12 voters

Atom by Isaac AsimovMolecules by Philip BallBeyond the Zonules of Zinn by David BainbridgeThe Body by Bill  BrysonThe Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
Science Books All Disciplines
9 books — 1 voter

Aspetta 2 ore by Frederik QuartaIl satiro scientifico. I belli hanno rotto il cazzo by Barbascura XLa profezia dell'armadillo by Zerocalcare
Divulgativo cinico e sarcastico
3 books — 1 voter
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. RamachandranStuff Matters by Mark MiodownikCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLiquid Rules by Mark Miodownik
Armchair Science Books
28 books — 7 voters


Daniel C. Dennett
There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course of their mutual chattering , under a wide variety of circumstances, they are induced to engage in bouts of involuntary, convulsive respiration, a sort of loud, helpless, mutually reinforcing group panting that sometimes is so severe as to incapacitate them. Far from being aversive,however, these atta ...more
Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

Thomas Wheeler
As the collected stories of the human journey, history offers the fundamental lesson that the challenges we face today aren't unique. No matter how much we flatter ourselves with self-absorption, we are but the continuation of the human saga. ...more
Tom Wheeler, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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