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Straight Dope: What I Learned from My First Thousand Nonfiction Reviews

Straight Dope: What I Learned from My First Thousand Nonfiction Reviews

What I learned from my first thousand nonfiction reviews

2019

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David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

The homicidal fraud of road design kills thousands annually but only drivers get blamed

Where I live, you need to take a state highway out of town to get to the interstate freeway. It begins as a three lane road, the most…

5d ago

The homicidal fraud of road design kills thousands annually but only drivers get blamed

5d ago

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

How fossil fuelers hijack language and co-opt climate issues and drown out critics

This is such a great concept for a book: collect all the keywords used by the fossil fuel industry to spread their disinformation, show how…

Jun 2

How fossil fuelers hijack language and co-opt climate issues and drown out critics

Jun 2

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Not a great intro to art, except that it gives rise to an emotion: anger

There are innumerable introductions to art. There are bookcases full of them. This new one, Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the…

May 26

Not a great intro to art, except that it gives rise to an emotion: anger

May 26

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Who understands wisecracks better: this self-appointed expert, or me? You decide.

I don’t know why I do this to myself. When I see a book on humor, I want to read it to learn what they have discovered that I don’t know…

May 18

Who understands wisecracks better: this self-appointed expert, or me? You decide.

May 18

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

While countries flood, burn and dither, cities act to save the world

Solved, by David Miller, should be a great asset in the fight to rein in Man and his excesses. It is the story of 94 great cities around…

May 12

While countries flood, burn and dither, cities act to save the world

May 12

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Are we just going to continue the misery in outer space?

When readers want a current issue clarified, they can always turn to A.C. Grayling. The man has written clear, concise and insightful…

May 5

Are we just going to continue the misery in outer space?

May 5

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

A hundred thousand followers can’t be all wrong, can they?

In a stunning achievement I never expected, I have garnered 100,000 followers at medium.com, which itself has just crossed the one million…

Apr 28

A hundred thousand followers can’t be all wrong, can they?

Apr 28

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Pushing Christ to Muslims at home

Those Saturday morning knocks at the door from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists and the Latter Day Saints enthusiasts…

Apr 28

Pushing Christ to Muslims at home

Apr 28

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Which is worse: fame or fortune?

The rich have problems, poor things. Theirs’ are different problems than yours or mine, and need elaboration if we are ever to understand…

Apr 21

Which is worse: fame or fortune?

Apr 21

David Wineberg
in
The Straight Dope

Stress actually kills, but doctors don’t consider it a disease. “How the mind ravages the body”

Some 25% of Americans have a mental illness of some kind, but that doesn’t necessarily count the millions who have real conditions and…

Apr 14

Stress actually kills, but doctors don’t consider it a disease. “How the mind ravages the body”

Apr 14

David Wineberg

David Wineberg

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Author, The Straight Dope, or What I learned from my first thousand nonfiction reviews. 16 Essays. Free with Prime www.thestraightdope.net

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