The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer Even though this book is about beliefs, it has a huge whopping load of science, especially neurology and psychology. It doesn’t address specific beliefs so much as describe how people form conjectures …
Category: Book Review
Jun 04
Book Review: 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks I got this as an audiobook, and I almost stopped listening to it because it begins with astrology and goes straight to quantum physics–my two least favorite fields of science. My friend advised me to continue listening, and …
Jun 01
Book Review: Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand It’s almost impossible to read this book with an unbiased mind. It seems that almost everyone has heard of this book and either loves it or hates it. I have one friend who named this as his favorite book, and I had another friend who blamed this book for ruining …
May 17
Book Review: Moon Dance
Moon Dance by J.R. Rain I got this as an audiobook as a cure for some of the drier nonfiction I’ve been listening to. It’s about what you’d expect of an urban fantasy. The protagonist is a vampire private investigator soccer mom named Samantha Moon. She’s asked to investigate the attempted murder of a man …
May 02
Book Review: What’s Eating You?: People and Parasites
What’s Eating You?: People and Parasites by Eugene H. Kaplan For some reason, I thought this book would be funnier. Why would a book about parasites be funny? Maybe because I associate parasites with travel horror stories, and travel horror stories are almost always hilarious. It does manage to be funny at parts, but mostly …