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Get the Summary of Taylor Lorenz's Extremely Online in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: By tracing how the internet has changed what we want and how we go about getting it, Lorenz unearths how social platforms' power users radically altered our expectations of content, connection, purchasing, and power. In this "deeply reported, behind-the-scenes chronicle of how everyday people built...
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Get the Summary of Marc Seifer's Wizard in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father...
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Get the Summary of Eric Berger's Liftoff in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Out of money and with a single Falcon 1 rocket left in its factory, SpaceX decided to try one last, dramatic launch. Over eight weeks, engineers worked furiously to prepare this final rocket. The fate of Musk's venture mirrored the trajectory of this slender, single-engine rocket aimed toward the skies. If it...
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Get the Summary of Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance...
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#1 The scapegoating of microbes is a common human tendency. We tend to blame certain microbes for causing serious illnesses, like COVID-19 and hepatitis C, when in reality, it is our own species that is responsible for the state of our oceans.
#2 Medical science is rooted in ignorance and the desire for oversimplification. The living world is much more complicated...
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Get the Summary of Scott Kelly with Margaret Lazarus Dean's Endurance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight,...
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Get the Summary of Don Lemon's This Is the Fire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans....
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Book Preview: #1 The next habitable planet is Mars, which is the most survivable other planet in our solar system. But that's not saying much. Other planets are more horrible. With the sun high in the sky, you would enjoy temperatures as high as 68° F on Mars, but if you exited the ship at one of the poles, the temperature could be less than −200° F.
#2 Exoplanets, or planets...
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#1 The position of national bird remains vacant. No president or Congress has ever signed a proclamation or passed a law to fill it. The bald eagle has falsely basked in the position of national bird since Congress affixed the bald eagle on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782.
#2 The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of America, and many of the American veterans...
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Get the Summary of Katharine Hayhoe's Saving Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats,...
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#1 Charles Darwin kept a secret notebook that he used to record his wildest ideas. He believed that the forms of living creatures weren't eternally stable but had changed over time.
#2 Darwin had begun thinking about evolution and had begun writing down his ideas in a notebook. He had read Zoonomia, a medical treatise written by his grandfather, which contained some...
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Get the Summary of Todd Harra & Kenneth McKenzie's Mortuary Confidential in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why...
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Book Preview: #1 The question of how the world will end has been the subject of speculation and debate among poets and philosophers throughout history. The answer, according to science, is fire. The universe will end in about five billion years, when the Sun will swell to its red giant phase and leave the Earth a charred, lifeless, magma-covered rock.
#2 Eschatology, the study...
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Get the Summary of Antonio Damasio's Feeling & Knowing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings,...
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#1 I wanted to meet the octopus. I wanted to touch an alternate reality. I wanted to explore a different kind of consciousness, if such a thing exists. Is it anything like being a human.
#2 The giant Pacific octopus is one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. It can grow both longer and heavier than a man in three years. It is also one of the most dangerous animals in the...
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Get the Summary of Karen Frazier's Crystals for Beginners in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Learn the holistic way to heal with Crystals for Beginners
Balancing mind, body, and soul often feels impossible, but it doesn't have to be a struggle. Holistic healing methods with crystals can help harness energies and establish a positive and healthy lifestyle. In Crystals for Beginners, intuitive...
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#1 Jordan was a fan of the stars, and he spent his time learning their names and significance. He eventually turned his attention to the terrestrial, and began drawing maps of everything he saw. His mother, who was very religious, took his maps and threw them away because she felt they were a waste of time.
#2 When David was in middle school, he started collecting and identifying...
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Get the Summary of Toby Ord's The Precipice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years-enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential...
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#1 The history of sightings of strange objects in Antipodean skies can be traced back to the 19th century, when European settlers reported seeing fuzzy hovering white orbs of light tracking them as they moved through outback country.
#2 I was a teenager living in New Zealand when the Kaikoura sighting occurred. I was initially intrigued then disappointed by the dramatic sighting,...
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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