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Books

  • A Promised Land
  • Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
  • The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
  • Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
  • Becoming
  • The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
  • The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
  • Notes of a Native Son
  • No Name in the Street
  • If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
  • How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss
  • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
  • Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster–And Overcoming OurFear of Slowing Down
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
  • Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  • The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
  • Men Explain Things to Me
  • The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts
  • I’m Just a Person
  • Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
  • Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  • The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
  • Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
  • Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
  • My Life on the Road
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  • How to Be an Antiracist
  • So You Want to Talk About Race
  • In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
  • Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
  • This Is My America
  • Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You
  • The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
  • Laughing at My Nightmare
  • Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
  • Emancipation of a Black Atheist
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
  • The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
  • A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
  • Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
  • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
  • Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • Experts

  • Alan Alda
  • Barack Obama
  • Brené Brown
  • Gretchen Rubin
  • Susan Rice
  • Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
  • Michelle Obama
  • Trevor Noah
  • James Baldwin
  • Sarah Silverman
  • Isabel Wilkerson
  • Shalini Kantayya
  • David Attenborough
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Greta Thunberg
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Kamala Harris
  • Michelle Alexander
  • Shankar Vedantam
  • Alie Ward
  • Bessel van der Kolk
  • Lori Gottlieb
  • Ibram X. Kendi
  • Mandisa Thomas
  • Eugene Kiely
  • Adam Conover
  • Cara Santa Maria
  • Ijeoma Oluo
  • Diane Guerrero
  • Shaun King
  • Kim Johnson
  • Jenara Nerenberg
  • Bronnie Ware
  • Clare Patey
  • Gene Demby
  • Shereen Marisol Meraji
  • Dr. Carol Tavris
  • Shane Burcaw
  • Susan Ware
  • bell hooks
  • Hannah Fry
  • Tig Notaro
  • William Still
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Aminatou Sow
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mazie Hirono
  • Penn Jillette
  • Dr. Steven Novella
  • James Randi
  • Cynthia Lowen
  • Julia Galef
  • Julie Sondra Decker
  • Stephanie Brown
  • B.J. Fogg
  • Dr. Laurie Santos
  • Shelly Johnson
  • Cristen Conger
  • Caroline Ervin
  • Madeline K. Sofia
  • Sabrina E. Dent, DMin
  • Jeremiah Camara
  • Emily Kwong
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Rebecca Sugar
  • Celeste Ng
  • Robia Rashid
  • Angie Thomas
  • Nancy Hopkins
  • Raychelle Burks
  • Jane K. Willenbring
  • Maya Shankar
  • Diona Reasonover
  • Gillian Jacobs
  • Issa Rae
  • D.K. Evans
  • Cordelia Fine
  • Hakeem Oluseyi
  • Kate Davis
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Mary Roach
  • Movies/Videos

  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Becoming (2020 documentary film)
  • Coded Bias
  • I Am Greta
  • Contradiction: A Question of Faith
  • An Honest Liar
  • Bill Nye: Science Guy
  • Bully
  • Netizens
  • Picture a Scientist
  • The Glorias
  • The Hate U Give
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
  • Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism In America
  • Podcasts

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
  • Happier with Gretchen Rubin
  • Intersectionality Matters!
  • Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
  • Hidden Brain
  • Ologies with Alie Ward
  • The Michelle Obama Podcast
  • The Sarah Silverman Podcast
  • The Exam Room
  • Periodic Talks
  • A Slight Change of Plans
  • Short Wave
  • Unladylike
  • Latter-Day Lesbian
  • The Happiness Lab
  • Rationally Speaking Podcast
  • Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
  • Penn’s Sunday School
  • Code Switch
  • A Mile in my Shoes
  • Talk Nerdy
  • Series

  • Brainchild
  • Waffles + Mochi
  • Adam Ruins Everything
  • Atypical
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Steven Universe
  • The Office (U.K.)
  • Websites

  • Americans United for Separation of Church and State
  • Laughing At My Nightmare
  • Black Nonbelievers (BN)
  • Psychology Today
  • FactCheck.org
  • Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

    Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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    Book Decription:

    “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists—who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.
    Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Environmental Science, Evolution, Extreme Thinking, Fear of the Unknown, HEALTH, Ideologies, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Medical Experts, Nutrition, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Planning, Quantity vs Quality, Religious Thinking, Science, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Mary Roach

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

    Publishing Date: 2014-04-01

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    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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    Book Decription:

    The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Environmental Science, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Numbers and Mathematics, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Planning, Quantity vs Quality, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Technology, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Author: Mary Roach

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

    Publishing Date: 2011-04-04

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    Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

    Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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    Book Decription:

    In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn’t Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Evolution, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Planning, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, Rewards and Punishments, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Technology, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Mary Roach

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

    Publishing Date: 2009-04-06

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    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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    Book Decription:

    Impossible (and irreverent) as it may sound, Roach has written a book about corpses that’s both lively and fresh. She traveled around the globe to conduct her forensic investigations, and her findings are wryly intelligent. While the myriad uses for cadavers recounted are often graphic, Roach imbues her subject with a sense of dignity, choosing to emphasize the oddly noble purposes corpses serve, from organ donation to lifesaving medical research.

    Readers will come away convinced of the enormous debt that we, the living, owe to the study of the remains of the dead. And while it may not offer the answer to the ancient mystery we were hoping for, Stiff offers a strange sort of comfort in the knowledge that, in a sense, death isn’t necessarily the end.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Ideologies, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Planning, Quantity vs Quality, Regrets, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Mary Roach

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

    Publishing Date: 2004-05-17

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    Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

    Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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    Book Decription:

    Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and “danger tree” faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.

    Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to “problem” wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Biases, Blame, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Environmental Science, Evolution, Extreme Thinking, Fear of the Unknown, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Planning, Power, Quantity vs Quality, Rewards and Punishments, Science, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Author: Mary Roach

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

    Publishing Date: 2021-09-14

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    Mary Roach

    Mary Roach

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    Biography:

    Mary Roach is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law, debuts in September 2021. Mary’s books have been published in 21 languages, and her second book, SPOOK, was a New York Times Notable Book. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, among others. She was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and an Osher Fellow with the San Francisco Exploratorium and serves as an advisor for Orion and Undark magazines. She has been a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Environmental Science, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Planning, Power, Quantity vs Quality, Relationships, Rewards and Punishments, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Technology, The Scientific Method, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Mary Roach

    Books
  • Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • Movies/Videos

    Podcasts

    Series

    Websites

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    Paula Poundstone

    Paula Poundstone

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    Biography:

    Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, interviewer, and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is the host of the Starburns Audio podcast (previously a member of the Maximum Fun network) Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, which is the successor to the National Public Radio program Live from the Poundstone Institute. She is a frequent panelist on NPR’s weekly news quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me, and was a recurring guest on the network’s A Prairie Home Companion variety program during Garrison Keillor’s years as host.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Change, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Planning, Social Skills, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Paula Poundstone

    Books
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
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    Podcasts

    Series

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    The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

    The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

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    Book Decription:

    Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care.

    The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life.

    The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Emotions, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Planning, Pride & Shame, Rewards and Punishments, Science, Social Skills, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Paula Poundstone

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Algonquin Books

    Publishing Date: 2017-05-09

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    Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse

    Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse

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    Book Decription:

    With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace.

    On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Complex Realities, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Social Skills, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Shane Burcaw

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

    Publishing Date: 2019-04-28

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    Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

    Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

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    Book Decription:

    The larger, louder half of legendary magic act Penn & Teller, and New York Times bestselling author of GOD, NO!, is back with a new collection of spiritual rants and hilarious ravings — the perfect year-round gift, when you consider that EVERY DAY IS AN ATHEIST HOLIDAY.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Evolution, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Religious Thinking, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Author: Penn Jillette

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Blue Rider Press

    Publishing Date: 2012-11-01

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