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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

by Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author)

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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

by Roland Allen (Goodreads Author)

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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

by J. Kenji López-Alt

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How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis

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Care tasks are the “chores” of life: cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding, dishes, and hygiene.

“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: 42

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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: atheism, religion, skeptic

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“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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