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Showing posts with label Books Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Science. Show all posts
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Book Review: Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization (2025). Bill McKibben

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For those who don’t know, Bill McKibben is a lifelong environmental activist, journalist and author of more than twenty books. His first boo...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Book Review: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (2025). Adam Becker.

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I’ve been very interested lately in artificial intelligence (AI) and our current fears and hopes about it, and have done a lot of reading on...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Book Review: Sociopath: A Memoir (2024). Patric Gagne, PhD.

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Years ago, I read and reviewed The Sociopath Next Door (2005) by Martha Stout, an eye-opening survey of sociopathy by a clinical psychologi...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Book Review: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024). Jonathan Haidt.

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In the course of my recent reading on the topics of the attention economy, and the effects of our society’s overload of attention-disrupting...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Book Review: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025). Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.

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I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately on the topic of AI (Artificial Intelligence). AI is naturally interesting to me as a former IT...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...