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Good. Might be missing some parts, but I am not sure.

The framing story of Sly is simply a work of genius. It enables the reader to interpret the following story in a panoply of ways.

Act I Scene I - Egeon ends up in Ephesus, beleaguered by misfortune. He had twin sons but lost one to a shipwreck. Now he turns up in Ephesus and can't afford to pay the taxes necessary to leave. Therefore, he must die according to the Duke.

Stresses the importance of an external system to organize thoughts and ideas. Follows a sociologist I never heard of, Niklas Luhmann.

Carol Bly writes about Creative Non-fiction. It’s easy to write about, but at the same time, challenges arise from how many Americans are raised. There is a distinct lack of reading happening in school. Bly believes the best writers to be great readers, and I have to agree.

Fascinating. The story of walking is more complicated than I initially thought. The how part is just as interesting as the why part.

Jeremy DeSilva asks a provocative question: why do we walk on two legs? There doesn’t seem to be much of an immediate benefit to doing so.

As before, the author gets into the nitty gritty of an unlikely event and compares those events to Poker hands. The book is still good so far. At its current quality I would give it four stars.

Addresses commonly held cognitive biases using probability and other types of math. So far the book is great.

Charles Kenny talks about how the eradication of disease is relatively new and plague has always happened to the human race.