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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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I see I was in my semicolon era here. Book 6: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes – A Deeply Informative Tour of Evolution’s Imperfections and Compromises by Nathan H. Lents Rough Review: 3.5 stars because I would have liked a longer, more in-depth look at most of what he talked about , although I understand the aim was to reach a much broader audience than one particular little biology nerd. This book (or perhaps more accurately, the […]

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention, and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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Bingo: Minds I’m conflicted about this book. Stolen Focus is, as the title says, about all the ways in which the modern world destroys our attention spans, and what we can do to help ourselves. Each chapter is about a different cause of shortened attention, and potential solutions (some individual, some global). For most of the book, I was really enjoying it. Sure, a lot of the information was stuff I already knew, but with a lot more detail and nuance than I’d read before. Johann Hard […]



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