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DNF at ~15%. This plays with words/format a lot and the story flattens out after "<spoiler>the birth</spoiler>"

DNF 43%. My favorite format of smaller essays and this does not connect at all

This was the right balance of sciencey facts, history and engaging political drama

Deeper than the typical TV news (e.g. we all get to hear a little bit of what "fauceys emails" were about) but very accessible (e.g. I learned about the viral "spillover")

The puns were attempted, not fun but doesn't take much from the book.

The show that did put 'fun' back into 'fundamentalist'h

It was a two pie type of a predicament

Here the reader gets to hear an unrelated (while amusing) story about a penis defense maneuver

The satellite was a large cylinder that looked a bit like a silver grain silo, so big that an astronaut wouldn't be able to stop it with his hands and might actually be ripped right off the end of the Canadarm if he tried. Two astronauts would have the same problem. What about three astronauts?

Do you know how to mesmerize a chicken?

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line--it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter. Such is the psychology of a pretzel.

It is not the business of authority figures to validate genius, because genius threatens authority.

You would not know a hero if one bit you in the ass

Rather than throwing out whole patriarchal script, men are offered addictions to make unsatisfying work more bearable

...all boys are raised to be killers... More and more girls who embrace patriarchal thinking also embrace the notion that they must be violent to have power

To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness ...

The myths are not descriptions of things but determinations to act

To be the best the government must be, first of all, possible

all strong and long lived societies have cherished their traditions [...] been very slow to change their ways

when you measure my allegiance only by where I stick my D, it's as if the rest doesn't count by anything

A women of her time, she wants more

Gentlemen playing fizzbuzz, turns out it has uses beyond software eng interviews

"This time in America–1960 to 1970–and this place, the Bay Area of Northern California, was totally f*ed"

Lingerable

It's relatively unimportant if the doctor understands or not but it hangs on the patient doing so

Thanks to his bad back, Hinton did not sit indeed. 15 years had passed since the last time he had set down. "It has been a long standing problem" – he said

LSTM = looks silly to me

I'd watch that shower if I were you — they never stop once they got a taste of human blood