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The Seven Ages of Death
Quo vAIdis
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Quantum Supremacy
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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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
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Bad Science
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Cosmos by Carl SaganSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman1984 by George OrwellA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Nerd's Guide to Reading
255 books — 76 voters
How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth ShapiroResurrection Science by M.R.  O'ConnorRise of the Necrofauna by Britt WrayWoolly by Ben MezrichFrankenstein's Cat by Emily Anthes
De-Extinction Science
14 books — 11 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Mind-changing Nonfiction
100 books — 77 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



Brian Deer
If he could do what he did -- and I'll show you what he did -- who else is doing what in the hospitals and laboratories that we may one day look to for our lives? ...more
Brian Deer, The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines

Lysenkoism may be useful only because it provides a lesson. Whether we like it or not, the days of the independent scientist and of independent science are about over. The more important science becomes in the lives of individuals and of nations, the more it will need popular support and will have to submit to social control. But the forms and techniques of this support and control have not yet been devised and tested. The problem is a new one. The Soviet rulers have tried a solution, but their ...more
Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

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