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Rebecca Boyle: Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

An excerpt from Rebecca Boyle’s book, “Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are”.

Helen De Cruz: Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think

Read an excerpt from the book “Wonderstruck” by Helen De Cruz.

Book Excerpt: The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

An excerpt is from the book “The Blind Spot” by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson.

Neil Theise: Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

The following is an excerpt from the book Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
by Neil Theise.

Nicholas Humphrey: Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

The following is an excerpt from the book Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey.

Saleem Ali: Earthly Order

The following is an excerpt from the book Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life by Saleem Ali..

Sean Carroll: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

The following is an excerpt from The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll.

Manil Suri: The Big Bang of Numbers

The following is an excerpt from The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri.

Sabine Hossenfelder: Existential Physics

The following is an excerpt from Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder.

Paul Davies: What’s Eating the Universe

Celebrated physicist and global bestselling author Paul Davies tells the story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums.

Anil Seth: Being You

Anil Seth’s quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science.

Hostage Chess and HostageMaster: John Leslie

In Hostage Chess captured men are freed by captive-for-captive exchanges, then parachuting back into the fight.