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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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The Straight Dope

Machismo Through The Ages

Throughout history, cultures have imposed stress and endurance tests on young men (mostly) to come of age into society, and beyond it. Call…

1d ago

Machismo Through The Ages

1d ago

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The Straight Dope

Politics turns out to be literally depressing

Politics in the USA is not merely numbing, or even just nauseating; it is literally depressing. In The Sad Citizen, Christopher Ojeda looks…

Jun 15

Politics turns out to be literally depressing

Jun 15

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The Straight Dope

David Mamet drinks the Kool-Aid, spews the nonsense, and make everything he has written suspect

The Disenlightenment by David Mamet is by far the strangest book I have read in a decade or more. It is puzzling to me how a wordsmith and…

Jun 8

David Mamet drinks the Kool-Aid, spews the nonsense, and make everything he has written suspect

Jun 8

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The Straight Dope

Black humorists in new collection

I was, as usual, hopelessly optimistic that another anthology of humor writers would actually contain humor. Most fail miserably, but Damon…

Jun 1

Black humorists in new collection

Jun 1

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The Straight Dope

Noise sucks, and there’s lots more to it than you might think

Chris Berdik has an interesting slant on noise pollution. He thinks we’re so focused on decibels (ie. loudness) that we miss the whole…

May 25

Noise sucks, and there’s lots more to it than you might think

May 25

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The Straight Dope

Of all the factors ushering USA out of first place, crypto will be the killer. Here’s why.

The Catalysts by Amanda Wick is a strange beast of a book. The introduction, of all things, is fascinating. That never happens. Wick, a…

May 20

Of all the factors ushering USA out of first place, crypto will be the killer. Here’s why.

May 20

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Sci-fi-worthy alien lifeforms have been here all along, we are now discovering

We have no idea what we don’t know. Almost daily, someone discovers a new, exotic lifeform the likes of which we have never seen, unless…

May 18

Sci-fi-worthy alien lifeforms have been here all along, we are now discovering

May 18

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Proteins are providing answers to questions we are only coming around to now

I have said this before, but it is ever more true. When we finally decoded the human genome, finally climbing to the top of that mountain…

May 11

Proteins are providing answers to questions we are only coming around to now

May 11

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Accidental activists, learning on the job

We’re used to the story of the parents who create an activist non-profit to deal with some situation or condition that ruined the life of…

May 4

Accidental activists, learning on the job

May 4

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Another BS job, this time in a BS company

Fake Work by Leigh Claire La Berge promises to be a Marxist take on BS jobs, a David Graeber-like examination of the decline and fall of…

Apr 27

Another BS job, this time in a BS company

Apr 27

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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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