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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

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…

5d ago

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

5d ago

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The Straight Dope

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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The Straight Dope

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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The Straight Dope

The Triple Risk of Traveling While American

My wife and I are world travelers. I have saved quite madly for this time of life, when responsibilities at home can be put aside all but…

Apr 22

The Triple Risk of Traveling While American

Apr 22

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The Straight Dope

Genders & Sexes: Hammering square pegs into round holes

Americans seem to have problems with genders. Last year saw 450 anti-transgender bills in 41 states undertaken to separate the sexes in…

Apr 20

Genders & Sexes: Hammering square pegs into round holes

Apr 20

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The Straight Dope

Data don’t count unless the algorithms say they do, and other disasters designers build in

There is actually a very good reason why no one goes to prison for white collar crime any more. The very systems that management…

Apr 13

Data don’t count unless the algorithms say they do, and other disasters designers build in

Apr 13

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The Straight Dope

Tariffs are the wrong answer to a make-believe question

Tariffs, it has long been known, are how countries punish the enemy in time of war, and punish themselves in time of peace. In other words…

Apr 9

Tariffs are the wrong answer to a make-believe question

Apr 9

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The man who denies there is nothing you can do about the weather or butterflies causing hurricanes

This autobiography by Dr. Jagadish Shukla is more of a wild joyride in a hijacked sportscar than a review of a life well lived. Shukla is a…

Apr 6

The man who denies there is nothing you can do about the weather or butterflies causing hurricanes

Apr 6

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You are what you pay attention to

Unless you know about the author, Dominic Pettman’s book Seeking Attention will fool you. The introduction can lead you to believe it is…

Mar 30

You are what you pay attention to

Mar 30

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The Italian School needs to repeat a grade

Democratic Elitism by Natasha Piano is misleading. It promotes itself as showing how the very foundation of American democracy failed to…

Mar 23

The Italian School needs to repeat a grade

Mar 23

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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