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• Why We Sleep

  Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

  Walker, Matthew P.,

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  Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Calculus of Friendship

  What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math

  Strogatz, Steven

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  This book explores the unique, decades-long relationship between Strogatz and his high school calculus teacher, Don Joffray. Their friendship is built almost entirely on their shared love of mathematics, particularly calculus, and unfolds through a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breath

  the New Science of a Lost Art

  Nestor, James,

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  There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding the Mother Tree

  Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

  Simard, S. (Suzanne),

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  Simard illuminates that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life's Edge

  the Search for What It Means to Be Alive

  Zimmer, Carl, 1966-

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  We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world-from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses-the harder they find it is to locate life's edge.

• Entangled Life

  How Fungi Make Our Worlds

  Sheldrake, Merlin

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  Fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stuff Matters

  Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-made World

  Miodownik, Mark,

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  This book tells enthralling stories that explain the science and history of materials. From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, Miodownik reveals the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Explain the World

  the Discovery of Modern Science

  Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

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  Presents a commentary on the history of science that examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing realms of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.

• The Elegant Universe

  Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

  Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-

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  Brian Greene peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter--from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas--is generated by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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  An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

  Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-

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  The author explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

  Tyson, Neil deGrasse

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  This book reveals just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

• Pale Blue Dot

  a Vision of the Human Future in Space

  Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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  Sagan examines the Solar System, the Voyager missions, and the possibilities of life beyond Earth. He also advocates for continued space exploration, arguing that it is essential for the survival and progress of humanity.

• Factfulness

  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

  Rosling, Hans,

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  The authors reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective, from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that…Read moreRead more of this annotation