This Explains Everything

This Explains Everything

By
John Brockman
John Brockman
2013 • 432 pages

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151 books

Nonfiction

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Elizabeth Dean
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The End of Men
An Epidemic of Absence
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Bad Religion

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554 books

Non Fiction

Lemons
Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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71 books

Brain Pickings Favorites

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Siddhartha Golu
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Hope In The Dark
Upstream: Selected Essays
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Time Travel: A History
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Hold Still

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16 books

Essays Poetry

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cinske
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
This Explains Everything
Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
Notes from no man's land : American essays
Citizen: An American Lyric
Palestine as Metaphor

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24 books

Academic Modern

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cinske
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Skin in the Game
An Argument for Mind
This Explains Everything
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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13 books

Non Fiction To Read

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Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Frostbite
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Seeing Like a State
The House of Morgan