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The tone for this book is... really weird so far. Usually books like this tend to feel more like research papers and are, admittedly, incredibly dry. But this book has an incredibly lighthearted tone so far. Which isn't wrong, just slightly off putting

I've read this book before, and I'll probably read it again after this. It's my guilty pleasure, but the TV show sucked

... morning glory is toxic to eat

I didn't realize that this was the guy who cut of the hands of the Marchioness victims. While we can look back on it now and know it was bad. WE CAN ALSO SAY IT WAS A BAD IDEA THEN, TOO. You spend 10 pages defending the decision, but not one saying 'yeah we didn't return all the hands, we had some left over, bodies were sent back without hands' dude.

There's a town in the UK called Tooting?

Any type of diet/ weight-loss plan fails 98% of the time within 2 years

*Insert man pushing dominoes meme here*
Tuberculosis ‐------------------------- Bouncy by Ateez

Why didn't the book start with the invention of number in the middle east? Why did I, instead, have to read the 3 most boring chapters about the dating of Easter in the west? I feel like it makes way more sense for the book to start both with the invention of numbers And with what comes first chronologically

Why does Cleopatra keep getting boiled down to simply sexy? She was incredibly intelligent and educated, there's so much more to her than her looks! I know that the narrative around her at the time portrayed as little more than a sex symbol, but we know so much more now! It takes me out of the immersion of a good story every time I see it

Honestly, I've never heard of Regus, but in comparison to WeWork, they seem way safer. Adam Neumann must be an amazing salesman for WeWork to have gained as much momentum as it did

I got a newer print of this book, and these pages are so thin that they're sticking together 😭

Sometimes I think about how alchemy is technically possible these days. Not in the way being presented in this book, but it is possible to turn lead into gold by using some form of radioactivity and moving of neurons/ protons. Which feels really weird

"I didn't 'lose' my father- I know exactly where he is."
That's just a great line

This is suddenly a horror novel

It has just occurred to me that reading this right before lunch is a bad idea

NO. Incorrect. The croissant did not come from the ottoman empire. If you're gonna lie, at least make it believable jfc

A couple of times in the book so far, one of the entries is just a thinly veiled conspiracy theory, an easily provable point, or missing lots of crucial information. The sumerian king story tries to present like it's some unknowable information about how long the kings lived, and no it's not. Either they measured time in a different way, are lying/ greatly exaggerating the number of years,or it was a dynasty of sorts

"The wisdom teeth, so called because they do not appear until close to adulthood, by which time we are all supposed ro have achieved some semblance of wisdom
..."
Did not know that!

The most horrifying part is that they're eating at Red Lobster, not the executioner

There's something strange about reading the continued mismanagement of systems leading up to the Challenger disaster while remembering the recent Boeing airplane accidents. The sense of dread is so profound it can make it hard to read this book as fast as I usually do. But I suppose this is what happens when you let businessmen run science

What's really interesting about plasma separation is that it remarkably similar to chocolate tempering. Both are about splitting the base into fractions then slowly reaching the right temp/ protein to achieve the end result

"He read fiercely, athletically, almost competitively, often finishing one novel a week, as if in a race"
I was unaware 1 book a week was a lot

Men will be convinced their wife killed their dog instead of going to therapy

The book is good, but whoever translated it did so literally. It reads very jerky, andthere have been quite a few sayings that have been translated over without an explanation of what they mean

Not the best book to read in public, but it's so good you'll do it anyway

This book had so much potential to be engaging. The history of female doctors, and how their lives were interconnected is incredibly interesting. Yet, the first half of this book feels almost like recitation of facts, rather than a retelling of history. Informative and thought provoking for sure, but not that great in my opinion