Science Curiosity

The books, in order

1. 1

   Science · 17 min

   A Short History of Nearly Everything

   Bill Bryson

   Bryson shows that the most obvious questions about our own planet rarely have easy answers, until someone gets bothered enough to chase them for years.

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2. 2

   Science · 15 min

   At Home: A Short History of Private Life

   Bill Bryson

   When the English government taxed windows, whole families bricked up openings in their walls, trading light and air for savings, a reminder that every tax changes behavior, not just budgets.

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3. 3

   Science · 15 min

   Cosmos

   Carl Sagan

   Science is the habit of testing an idea over and over and throwing out your favorite if the evidence points another way.

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4. 4

   Science · 15 min

   A Brief History of Time

   Stephen Hawking

   Gravity is not a rope pulling two objects together. It is the space around a large mass becoming curved, guiding other bodies along.

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5. 5

   Science · 15 min

   The Selfish Gene

   Richard Dawkins

   A generous behavior can be, deep down, the best long-term play for copying genes similar to your own.

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6. 6

   Science · 16 min

   The Blind Watchmaker

   Richard Dawkins

   Natural selection can't see the future and isn't chasing a goal: generation after generation, it just keeps whatever worked well enough to survive and leave offspring.

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7. 7

   History · 15 min

   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

   Yuval Noah Harari

   Science only picked up speed when scholars started admitting what they didn't know, instead of inventing an answer for everything.

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8. 8

   Science · 17 min

   Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

   David Christian

   For Christian, telling the story of the universe as a science-based origin myth helps give a shared sense of meaning to peoples who once each had their own narrative.

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9. 9

   Personal Finance · 16 min

   The Black Swan

   Nassim Nicholas Taleb

   The more days a routine repeats without failing, the more confident you get, right when the risk behind it has also grown.

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10. 10

    Science · 18 min

    On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

    The intentional manipulation of traits in domestic plants and animals reveals how small choices accumulated over generations can redesign entire biological forms.

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