A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Methodby Daniel J. Levitin Winner of the National Business Book Award From the New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever We … Continue reading A Field Guide to Lies
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The Good Life
BOOK REVIEWThe Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happinessby Robert Waldinger M.D. and Marc Schulz Ph.D 2023 About the AuthorsDr. Robert Waldinger is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. Dr. … Continue reading The Good Life
The Science of Self-Empowerment
BOOK REVIEWThe Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Storyby Gregg Braden 2019 About the AuthorGregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science, spirituality, and the real world! Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist during the 1970s energy crisis, he worked in the 1980s as a Senior Liaison with the … Continue reading The Science of Self-Empowerment
“Cause Unknown”
BOOK REVIEW"Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022by Ed Dowd 2022 About the AuthorEdward Dowd is currently a Founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, a global macro alternative investment firm. Edward has worked on Wall Street most of his career, spanning both credit markets and equity markets. Some of the firms he … Continue reading “Cause Unknown”
Notes on Complexity
BOOK REVIEWNotes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Beingby Neil Theise 2023 About the AuthorNeil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. He is also … Continue reading Notes on Complexity
The Master Builder
BOOK REVIEWThe Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Lifeby Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D. 2023 About the AuthorAlfonso Martinez Arias is ICREA Research Professor in the department of systems bioengineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. The recipient of numerous awards, he is coauthor of the biology textbook … Continue reading The Master Builder
The Milkweed Lands
BOOK REVIEWThe Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant, Its Nature and Ecologyby Eric Lee-Mäder & Beverly Duncan (Illustrator), publication date September 26, 2023 About the Author and IllustratorEric Lee-Mäder is the Pollinator Program Co-Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and co-owner of Northwest Meadowscapes, a native seed farm located on Whidbey … Continue reading The Milkweed Lands
