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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a 2015 book by anthropologist David …
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the existence and societal harm of …
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world …
An interesting look at Mennonite communities.
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the …
As someone who worked as a biochemist in the 80's and 90's I quite enjoyed this book. There were inaccuracies in the science; as others have pointed out, no DNA sequencing in the 50's and 60's, but I felt the misogyny and treatment of women were quite realistic.
It does seem like a novel informed by today's values that would not have been written a few years ago. There seem to be a lot of books like this being written. It's particularly jarring for historical novels. It's encouraging that we can now recognize the harms that were done in the past, but it makes such novels seem a bit like fantasies.
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that …
This book is stream-of-consciousness. I usually find stream-of-consciousness a bit of a slog, but this was a moving and very easy read. He clearly deserves his Nobel prize and I am looking forward to reading the other books in this series.
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped …
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in …
