The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
by Sarah Stewart Johnson · 6 Jul 2020 · 400pp · 99,489 words
emerge from in Lowell’s lifetime. Lowell continued to write and lecture, seeking to inspire students as he became more and more marginalized from the scientific mainstream. He died of a stroke in 1916. In a moving tribute, his secretary described him as “filled by the warmth of his fire; thrilled by
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 Nov 2010 · 1,294pp · 210,361 words
the role of diet in cancer—a question of at least equal import—received one-twentieth of that allocation.) Peyton Rous was rehabilitated into the scientific mainstream and levitated into permanent scientific sainthood. In 1966, having been overlooked for a full fifty-five years, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by Kevin Davies · 5 Oct 2020 · 741pp · 164,057 words
2005 while refining a technology called zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), which is still in clinical use. In 2011, the year before CRISPR burst into the scientific mainstream, the journal Nature Methods anointed genome editing its “Method of the Year.” ZFNs and another gene-editing platform called TALENs have their admirers, but were
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words
Ted a check to plant a quarter-acre of trees on one of his projects.9 On climate issues, his beliefs were solidly in the scientific mainstream. But on GMOs? We closed with my plea for him to take a day and think it over, then let me know whether I could
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
of mainstream scientists. Their critics see it as democracy in action—the outcome of an entirely laudable effort by amateur scientists and others outside the scientific mainstream to gain access to the complex data sets behind some of the climate scientists’ conclusions and to subject them to their own analysis. While there
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by Benjamin Breen · 16 Jan 2024 · 384pp · 118,573 words
movement. But he had done so outside the scientific establishment. The psychedelic therapy of the late 1950s seemed, for a time, to be entering the scientific mainstream while also offering a revolutionary new improvement on the older drugs (such as sodium amytal), which had dangerous side effects and none of the creativity
Falling to Earth
by Al Worden · 26 Jul 2011 · 357pp · 121,119 words
Ed. He was different from your average astronaut. Fascinated by psychic phenomena and spiritual energy, he studied “new age” ideas that were far outside the scientific mainstream. It didn’t fit our NASA work, so Ed kept his interests pretty much to himself for a long time. At my apartment, however, we
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
government reactions but also the involvement of academic and business communities, and thus they have had a supportive but supplementary role in relation to the scientific mainstream.41 Similarly, anti-shale gas extraction groups have been able to coordinate both online and offline activities to exert pressure on local municipalities.42 Citizen
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
by Benjamin Peters · 2 Jun 2016 · 518pp · 107,836 words
) proved a refuge of privilege and relative intellectual freedom for over 65,000 Soviet scientists, including Aleksei Lyapunov, a pioneering cyberneticist.63 Before the Soviet scientific mainstream could adopt cybernetics, the attendant scholarly communities had to be prepared for an about-face in the official Soviet attitude toward an American-born discipline
Big Bang
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 2004 · 492pp · 149,259 words
of Wrinkling The award of the Nobel prize to Penzias and Wilson marked the point at which the Big Bang model became part of the scientific mainstream. In due course, this model of cosmic creation would even find recognition in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. It was not easy
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan · 30 Apr 2018 · 547pp · 148,732 words
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. And the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman · 14 Oct 2023 · 567pp · 171,072 words
Meat: A Benign Extravagance
by Simon Fairlie · 14 Jun 2010 · 614pp · 176,458 words
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 11 Mar 2015 · 1,737pp · 491,616 words
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by Angela Saini · 29 May 2017 · 296pp · 86,188 words
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by H. W. Brands · 1 Jan 2000 · 961pp · 302,613 words
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman · 24 Aug 2015 · 786pp · 195,810 words
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier · 28 Jun 2020 · 345pp · 87,534 words
The Soil Will Save Us
by Kristin Ohlson · 14 Oct 2014