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It is a cliché to note that the personal is the political, but in an era when scientists, corporations, and governments are learning to hack the human brain, this truism is more sinister than ever.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Far less renowned than the Hollywood Ten or writers like Howard Fast or Arthur Miller, David Lasser, one of the country’s first space advocates and the author of The Conquest of Space, became one of the first victims of the Red Scare.
Robert Stone • Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
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Paul Theroux • Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an enormou
... See moreHampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Peter Baksa • The Point of Power
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