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  • 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
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
  • Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster–And Overcoming OurFear of Slowing Down
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
  • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
  • 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
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  • Clare Patey
  • Gene Demby
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  • Dr. Carol Tavris
  • Shane Burcaw
  • Susan Ware
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  • Tig Notaro
  • William Still
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Aminatou Sow
  • Ann Friedman
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  • Madeline K. Sofia
  • Sabrina E. Dent, DMin
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  • Celeste Ng
  • Robia Rashid
  • Angie Thomas
  • Nancy Hopkins
  • Raychelle Burks
  • Jane K. Willenbring
  • Maya Shankar
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  • Becoming (2020 documentary film)
  • Coded Bias
  • I Am Greta
  • Contradiction: A Question of Faith
  • Bully
  • Netizens
  • Picture a Scientist
  • The Glorias
  • The Hate U Give
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
  • Podcasts

  • Ologies with Alie Ward
  • The Michelle Obama Podcast
  • The Sarah Silverman Podcast
  • Periodic Talks
  • A Slight Change of Plans
  • 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
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  • Brainchild
  • Adam Ruins Everything
  • Atypical
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Steven Universe
  • The Office (U.K.)
  • Websites

  • Americans United for Separation of Church and State
  • Black Nonbelievers (BN)
  • 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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    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
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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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    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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    Kate Davis

    Kate Davis

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    Biography:

    Kate Davis is an American director, producer and editor. She is best known for Southern Comfort (2001), and Traffic Stop (2017) for which she received Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination with husband David at the 90th Academy Awards. More recently she and her husband, David Heilbroner, directed Say Her Name, a documentary about the life and death of Sandra Bland.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Power, Race and Racism, Rewards and Punishments, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Kate Davis

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    Movies/Videos
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
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    Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

    Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

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    Expert: Kate Davis

    Website: Link

    Release Date: 2018-11-09

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Power, Race and Racism, Rewards and Punishments, Social Skills, Societies, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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    The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

    The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

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    Book Decription:

    From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah’s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler’s Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea and Artie Lange’s Too Fat to Fish, you’ll love The Bedwetter.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Complex Realities, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, Rewards and Punishments, Social Skills, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Sarah Silverman

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Harper Collins

    Publishing Date: 2010-04-20

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