Non-Fiction books discussion Thread (Pop Soyence edition) :sciencejak:


								

								

!bookworms !ifrickinglovescience so you can post and discuss Pop-Sci books. Tell us what you recommend but also which ones you hated and made up roll your eyes :marseyeyeroll:

Pic related is from !sophistry "The Neolithic Revolution and it's consequences…" author and Silicon Valley darling (((Yuval Noah Harari))) :#marseymerchant: because it's Sci-Fi-ish when compared to that overrated "history" :marseyairquotes: :carpsurejan: book Sapiens.

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Why is Malcolm Gladwell so popular? The main thesis in all of his books get debunked/widely discredited by actual scientists and researches yet he's still the most popular pop-science author

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He's easy to read :marseyshrug: I actually ended up quite liking The Bomber Mafia despite his glib writing voice

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!ifrickinglovescience :#marseyhesfluffyyouknow: another good take from Coffeezilla/Coffee Break

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His podcast (Revisionist History) is somehow even worse. One episode I listened to was about how thanks to a Constitutional quirk California can break up into a bunch of different smaller states without needing federal approval. So Gladwell lays out why California should do it so Democrats have a permanent majority in the Senate. I can envision this plan backfiring in about a million different ways

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