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Patrick Pilz is finished with An Economist's Guide to Environmentalism: A Toolkit for Understanding and Solving Ecological Problems
Jordan's book starts a little slow with fundamentals and economic principles until it actually moves to the topic the title suggests. His approach and argument is largely based on the the theory that the markets will eventually regulate environmentalism. I would put the argument he makes on the right side of the political spectrum, though lefties would be well advised to read it. Arguments are sound.
Aug 20, 2025 07:27PM Add a comment
An Economist's Guide to Environmentalism: A Toolkit for Understanding and Solving Ecological Problems

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Patrick Pilz is reading The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map – How Neuroscience and Behavioral Psychology Explain Our Primal Urge to Explore
Wondering if you should pick a familiar food at our favorite restaurant or try something new? Alex Hutchinson explores how we think about facing these options. In a series of stories Alex describes how we tackle these dilemmas. The book easy to read and deeply rooted in science. As entertaining as Malcom Gladwell just build on more solid research. Fun and Informative to read!
Dec 03, 2024 10:35AM Add a comment
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map – How Neuroscience and Behavioral Psychology Explain Our Primal Urge to Explore

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Patrick Pilz is finished with Future Stories: What's Next?
David Christian's books are always illuminating, here on how living things shape the future and what it may behold. Of course he will be wrong, like all futurists, but still an interesting read for all of us.
Apr 22, 2022 03:20PM Add a comment
Future Stories: What's Next?

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Patrick Pilz is on page 304 of 336 of Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Greed is NOT good! Gordon Gecko was wrong and so were the executives at Boing and their infiltrators at the FAA. This will happen again, because our so called oversight institutions are organized by a bunch of bribed regulators based on unprecedentet campaign spending in which a few hundred lives don't matter much, as they are not American, European, British or from any country where lives really count.

Sobering!
Jan 26, 2022 04:08PM Add a comment
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

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Patrick Pilz is on page 200 of 384 of The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Not sure why I keep reading this. It seems to me that this woman has been struck with the worst teenagers have to offer.
Jan 24, 2019 02:35PM Add a comment
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

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Patrick Pilz is on page 100 of 304 of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Not sure if I finish this one, I do not like the tone of the book
Nov 12, 2016 10:19AM Add a comment
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy

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Patrick Pilz is reading The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
This is a tough read, never had a book which made me fall asleep faster. It is extremely difficult written and describes more societal changes than the conquest of the potatoe.
Nov 05, 2015 12:53PM Add a comment
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

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Patrick Pilz is reading How to Lie with Statistics
Everything the average Excel user needs to know to fool their bosses in a very brief and funny book. A little dated perhaps, but timeless nonetheless.
Aug 15, 2015 01:40PM Add a comment
How to Lie with Statistics

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Patrick Pilz is reading How to Lie with Statistics
Everything the average Excel user needs to know to fool their bosses in a very brief and funny book. A little dated perhaps, but timeless nonetheless.
Aug 15, 2015 01:40PM Add a comment
How to Lie with Statistics

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Patrick Pilz is reading Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
Excellent quick read, nothing in common with the movie by the same name.
Aug 14, 2015 06:52PM Add a comment
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest

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