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“A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” —Napoleon
“It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
― Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
― Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“the implication is clear: there is something odd about us. We are not like other animals. In most circumstances, we need cooked food.”
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
― Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
“The most difficult part of writing this book is understanding or, again, at least describing — I don’t think it is possible to understand — how the whole field of medical nutrition could be wrong.”
― The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution
― The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution
“The circle of salt’s potential victims grew at an alarming rate. Part of Dahl’s research into the evils of salt involved breeding a strain of salt-sensitive rats, in which he induced hypertension by feeding them commercially prepared baby food that contained added sodium. In April 1970, newspapers ran an Associated Press report about Dahl’s findings under scary headlines like “Baby Food Salt May Be Harmful, Researcher Says.” The report quoted Dahl calling salted baby food “a needless kind of risk.”
― The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
― The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
“I was suspicious of such a theory because biology tends to run on hormones and enzymes, that is, control mechanisms, not on mass action (the principle that chemical processes are determined by how much reactants are put into them). The grand principle in biochemistry is that there is hardly anything that is not connected with feedback. If you try to lower your dietary cholesterol, the liver will respond by making more. So simply adding more or less is not guaranteed to give much change at all and I was skeptical if not well-informed.”
― The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution
― The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution
David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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86 books
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803 books
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466 books
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265 books
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20 friends
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