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| 101 Theory Drive | Terry McDermott | Memory. I would love to have a beer with Gary Lynch. | This was an excellent book. | 5 |
| 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time | Michael Brooks | Dark Matter to a Giant Vrius | Entertaining but jumpy. Poor segways between topics | 3.5 |
| A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | Child soldiers in Sierra Leone | Terribly sad. I guess there is no oil in Sierra Leone. | 4.5 |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Vastness of space to Australopithecines | This is an absolutely brilliant book. Very entertaining while provoking some really deep thoughts about our existence. | 5 |
| At Home: Short History of Private Life | Bill Bryson | General History | Jumpy, but good. | 4 |
| Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" | Philip C. Plait | Observations. | OK | 3.5 |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | | | 4 |
| Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Mary Roach | | | |
| Collider | Paul Halpern | History of particle accelerators | Informative but a little dry. | 3.5 |
| Death by Blackhole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries | Neil deGrasse Tyson | A compilation of prior column entries by Neil. | Very entertaining. | 4 |
| Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life | Neil Strauss | Prepare for the Apocalypse! | Fun fun. Already scheduled for another listen. Great Book. | 5 |
| Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty | Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman | Unwarranted Death | Sitting, staring at this empty box wondering why I am not typing. I had a really hard time processing the information in this book. Not calling anyone out, but for those making the decisions: It is time to start making the right ones. Why isn't this daily front page news? This needs to be fixed. Now. | 5 |
| God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens | How religion ruins everything | I tend to agree | 4.5 |
| Googled | Ken Auletta | Google | Solid book, tons of information. A little unnerving. This book changed the way I perceive Google. | 4.5 |
| Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | | | |
| How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | Douglas W. Hubbard | | | |
| Methland | Nick Reding | Drugs in the US midwest. In particular, Crystal Meth. | If I had an award to give, this book would get it. | 5 |
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Carol S. Dweck | Fixed vs. Growth mindset | As I listened to it I thought, well yeah, thats obvious. I dont think most people think that way though. If you have kids read this. | 4.5 |
| Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) | Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson | Congnitive Dissonance | If you want an explanation for those you just don't understand, read this. | 4.5 |
| Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields | Charles Bowden | Drugs and Ciudad Juárez. | A serious problem that appears to be taken far too lightly. | 4 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | North Korea... Oh. Wait. | Brilliant book. | 5 |
| Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick | Cruel mind games x 1000 | Prior to this, if the subject of North Korea came up in a conversation I would claim that I knew a little bit about what was going on. Not even close. A very sad book but I am glad I read it. | 4 |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | Practice makes perfect | A very good book. | 5 |
| Packing for Mars | Mary Roach | | | |
| Pandora's Seed | Spencer Wells | History, genetics, religion | Great build up but he did a terrible job of tying it all together. I think he ran out of money. | 3 |
| Plastic: A Toxic Love Story | Susan Freinkel | How little we really know about the impact of our actions | Good book. | 3.5 |
| Poorly Made in China | Paul Midler | Manufacturing in China. | Very engaging. Contains some interesting history as well. This book gave me an unhealthy complex. I think twice before I use anything now. | 4.5 |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely | | | 4.5 |
| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality | Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha | Sex. Duh. | OK. Good start, almost hung it up and then Bam! <- irony ;) No really, it got quite interesting at the half way point and kept it up till the end. | 4 |
| Spook | Mary Roach | | | |
| Start With Why | Simon Sinek | | | |
| Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars | John Huddy | | | |
| Stuff White People Like | Christian Lander | | | |
| The 48 Laws Of Power | Robert Greene | How to win | This is a fun book. | 5 |
| The Art of Choosing | Sheena Iyengar | Why we make the choices we do | Our inclination to choose one thing over another isn't as simple as we think. | 3.5 |
| The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. | Atul Gawande | The importance of checklists. | Brilliant book. | 5 |
| The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | The history of Cadaver exploits. | The aorta is a sensitive thing. | 4 |
| The Drunkard's Walk | Leonard Mlodinow | | | |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee | A very long and unnerving history of Cancer and Cancer treatment | Epic. | 5 |
| The Future of a Radical Price | Chris Anderson | | | |
| The Happiness Hypothesis | Johnathan Haidt | Great ideas | Self help book. Kinda corny but worth it. | 4.5 |
| The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer | Philip Carlo | Richard Kuklinski | Long. A bit of repititon but good. | 4 |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | HELA Cells | I loved the way the story was presented. Unorthodox, but gripping. | 5 |
| The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us | Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons | How our mind tricks/fails us. | I didn't care too much for this book. Most of the claims were far to general and open for interpretation. I think this is a pathology not a norm. | 3 |
| The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | The History of some of the more prominent technology companies. | This was entertaining. Contains quite a few thought provoking tidbits. | 4 |
| The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry | Jon Ronson | | | |
| The Shallows | Nicholas Carr | How the Internet is knocking points off of our IQ | Terrible delivery but some really good arguments and theories. | 3.5 |
| The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us | Martha Stout | Sociopaths | 1 in 25 people. A great follow-up to dissonance. The last two chapters fall off a bit. | 4 |
| The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations | Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom | Centralized, decentralized or hybrid. Choose wisely. | This one took me off guard. I was getting a little impatient with the first two chapters until I saw the big picture. This is a good book. I want to be a starfish. | 4 |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | Change | Broad topic and discussion, but he nicely ties it all together. | 4.5 |
| The Wal-Mart Effect | Charles Fishman | How to be mean to the little guys | Go Capitalism! | 4.5 |
| This is Your Country on Drugs | Ryan Grim | History of Drugs, focusing primarly on the US | Intrigued with Methland, I followed up with this. Fascinating stuff. | 4 |
| Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us | Seth Godin | | | |
| Tuned In | Craig Stull, Phil Myers, David Meerman Scott | Resonators | A self-help book for entrepreneurs. | 4 |
| What Technology Wants | Kevin Kelly | | | |
| Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation | Steven Johnson | How great ideas are grown/nutured (not spontaneous) and the adjacent possible: Unintended uses of ideas. For example, a box wrench is also an effective weapon ;) | This is a good book. While a little slow at times he makes his point. | 4 |