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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
London Review of Books
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English Victorian version of a Renaissance man, Francis Galton. Galton wore many hats. He was an anthropologist, tropical explorer (Southwest Africa), geographer, sociologist, geneticist, statistician, inventor, meteorologist, and was also considered the father of psychometry,
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)
2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more
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they stumbled upon a crucial detail—Indo-European
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Watching Roger evangelize with his usual gusto about “the most important invention in history since the Internet,” Charlie said to the others, with
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
phrenology not only ‘introduced the “average” to the masses, no matter how little factual basis it had. It provided, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, a new way for white middle-class men and women to position themselves in an imagined statistical collective’.
Robert Chapman • Empire of Normality
The Marginalian
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