Science
Science shapes every aspect of our world, from the atoms that form our bodies to the mysteries of consciousness and human behavior. Here you'll find engaging explorations of evolution, physics, psychology, and the natural forces that govern both our universe and ourselves.
Science Book Summaries
The Soundscape
Civilization buried earth's oldest music in noise. A map of the lost soundscape and how to hear it.
Music
Ecology
Science
History
Philosophy
The Soundscape
Civilization buried earth's oldest music in noise. A map of the lost soundscape and how to hear it.
Music
Ecology
Science
History
Philosophy
What My Bones Know
A survivor's investigation into what childhood abuse does to the body, and what repairs it.
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
Biography
Self Help
What My Bones Know
A survivor's investigation into what childhood abuse does to the body, and what repairs it.
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
Biography
Self Help
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
The traits behind the worst crimes also fuel top surgeons and CEOs. The difference is degree.
Psychology
Science
True Crime
Self Help
Business
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
The traits behind the worst crimes also fuel top surgeons and CEOs. The difference is degree.
Psychology
Science
True Crime
Self Help
Business
Body Language
Your body is talking: gestures, zones, and micro-signals that expose what words conceal.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Business
Body Language
Your body is talking: gestures, zones, and micro-signals that expose what words conceal.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Business
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.
Science
History
Biography
Medicine
Race
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.
Science
History
Biography
Medicine
Race
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.
Science
Philosophy
Mathematics
Psychology
Computer Science
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.
Science
Philosophy
Mathematics
Psychology
Computer Science
Data Science for Business
Why overfitting sinks most data projects, and the conceptual tools that stop it.
Business
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Management
Data Science for Business
Why overfitting sinks most data projects, and the conceptual tools that stop it.
Business
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Management
David and Goliath
Giants don't always win: the hidden weapons of underdogs, and why too much power backfires.
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Sociology
Science
David and Goliath
Giants don't always win: the hidden weapons of underdogs, and why too much power backfires.
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Sociology
Science
Raising Mentally Strong Kids
Build the brain first, and mental strength follows. The playbook for raising resilient kids.
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Family
Mental Health
Raising Mentally Strong Kids
Build the brain first, and mental strength follows. The playbook for raising resilient kids.
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Family
Mental Health
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
AI has overpromised for decades. Deep learning is different, but not how most think.
Technology
Science
Computer Science
History
Philosophy
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
AI has overpromised for decades. Deep learning is different, but not how most think.
Technology
Science
Computer Science
History
Philosophy
Uncommon Sense Teaching
Working memory holds four items. Most lessons overload it. The classroom fixes, from brain science.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Uncommon Sense Teaching
Working memory holds four items. Most lessons overload it. The classroom fixes, from brain science.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Consciousness Explained
Consciousness has no central theater. Your brain runs parallel drafts, and the self is a fiction.
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Biology
Evolution
Consciousness Explained
Consciousness has no central theater. Your brain runs parallel drafts, and the self is a fiction.
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Biology
Evolution
Everything Is Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.
History
Medicine
Science
Health
Social Justice
Everything Is Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.
History
Medicine
Science
Health
Social Justice
The Innovators
Collaboration, not solitary genius, built the computer. The human story of the digital revolution.
History
Technology
Biography
Science
Business
The Innovators
Collaboration, not solitary genius, built the computer. The human story of the digital revolution.
History
Technology
Biography
Science
Business
Social Intelligence
The brain has a social operating system. Relationships shape it; isolation breaks it.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Relationships
Sociology
Social Intelligence
The brain has a social operating system. Relationships shape it; isolation breaks it.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Relationships
Sociology
A Man for All Markets
From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.
Finance
Memoir
Business
Mathematics
Economics
A Man for All Markets
From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.
Finance
Memoir
Business
Mathematics
Economics
The Demon-Haunted World
Why we fall for alien abductions and astrology, and the scientific toolkit that can save us.
Science
Philosophy
Religion
Psychology
Education
The Demon-Haunted World
Why we fall for alien abductions and astrology, and the scientific toolkit that can save us.
Science
Philosophy
Religion
Psychology
Education
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.
Philosophy
Sociology
History
Sexuality
Politics
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.
Philosophy
Sociology
History
Sexuality
Politics
Totem and Taboo
Every taboo, ritual, and god traces back to one act: brothers killing and eating their father.
Psychology
Anthropology
Religion
Philosophy
Sociology
Totem and Taboo
Every taboo, ritual, and god traces back to one act: brothers killing and eating their father.
Psychology
Anthropology
Religion
Philosophy
Sociology
Psych 101
A crash course in psychology: the major thinkers, landmark studies, and what they reveal about you.
Psychology
Science
Reference
Self Help
Mental Health
Psych 101
A crash course in psychology: the major thinkers, landmark studies, and what they reveal about you.
Psychology
Science
Reference
Self Help
Mental Health
Anatomy of Love
Your brain runs three separate love systems, and they aren't designed to work in your favor.
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
Relationships
Anatomy of Love
Your brain runs three separate love systems, and they aren't designed to work in your favor.
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
Relationships
Metaphors We Live By
Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.
Language
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Culture
Metaphors We Live By
Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.
Language
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Culture
Accelerate
Elite software teams ship fast and break nothing. Four metrics from years of research explain how.
Technology
Business
Management
Leadership
Programming
Accelerate
Elite software teams ship fast and break nothing. Four metrics from years of research explain how.
Technology
Business
Management
Leadership
Programming
Learned Optimism
Optimism is not a birthright; it is a skill built by arguing with your own worst thoughts.
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Personal Development
Science
Learned Optimism
Optimism is not a birthright; it is a skill built by arguing with your own worst thoughts.
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Personal Development
Science
Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Build AI that ships: systematic prompt design for text, images, and agents, not lucky guesses.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Reference
Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Build AI that ships: systematic prompt design for text, images, and agents, not lucky guesses.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Reference
The Five Flirting Styles
Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
Sexuality
Science
The Five Flirting Styles
Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
Sexuality
Science
The Singularity Is Near
Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.
Science
Technology
Ai
Philosophy
Computer Science
The Singularity Is Near
Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.
Science
Technology
Ai
Philosophy
Computer Science
The Luck Factor
You make your own luck. A research psychologist shows how to rig the odds in your favor.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Business
The Luck Factor
You make your own luck. A research psychologist shows how to rig the odds in your favor.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Business
Images of Organization
One metaphor blinds you; eight set you free. The classic method for reading any organization.
Business
Management
Leadership
Sociology
Psychology
Images of Organization
One metaphor blinds you; eight set you free. The classic method for reading any organization.
Business
Management
Leadership
Sociology
Psychology
Complexity
Simple rules produce the complexity of ant colonies, brains, and economies. The science of how.
Science
Biology
Computer Science
Mathematics
Physics
Complexity
Simple rules produce the complexity of ant colonies, brains, and economies. The science of how.
Science
Biology
Computer Science
Mathematics
Physics
The Alignment Problem
AI learns our blind spots along with our data. Correcting that is the central problem in computing.
Computer Science
Science
Technology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Alignment Problem
AI learns our blind spots along with our data. Correcting that is the central problem in computing.
Computer Science
Science
Technology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Anatomy of Motive
Motive catches killers before evidence does. The FBI profiler who built the science shows why.
True Crime
Psychology
Crime
Murder
Violence
The Anatomy of Motive
Motive catches killers before evidence does. The FBI profiler who built the science shows why.
True Crime
Psychology
Crime
Murder
Violence
The Talent Code
The brain substance that builds skill thrives on error: the biological model that rewrites talent.
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Science
Personal Development
The Talent Code
The brain substance that builds skill thrives on error: the biological model that rewrites talent.
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Science
Personal Development
You Are the Placebo
Meditation, emotion, and identity change can trigger the same biological repair a sugar pill does.
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Spirituality
Science
You Are the Placebo
Meditation, emotion, and identity change can trigger the same biological repair a sugar pill does.
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Spirituality
Science
The Poisoner's Handbook
Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.
History
Science
True Crime
Crime
Medicine
The Poisoner's Handbook
Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.
History
Science
True Crime
Crime
Medicine
Understanding Human Nature
Your personality is not inherited. It is the strategy you built to feel significant.
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Classics
Self Help
Understanding Human Nature
Your personality is not inherited. It is the strategy you built to feel significant.
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Classics
Self Help
The User Illusion
Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Biology
Physics
The User Illusion
Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Biology
Physics
