The Book of Why

By Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (2018) Pages: 432, Final verdict: Great-read I had countless discussions with my thesis supervisor on the causes of road traffic accidents. I was proposing to build an AI model to predict which variables had more impact and all I had was an enormous dataset.... Read more

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Energy and Civilization: A History

By Vaclav Smil (2017) Pages: 568, Final verdict: Great-read Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor of the University of Manitoba, Canada, has made a career of dissecting broad topics of society from food production, the history of materials to energy. A prolific writer, with more than 40 books published under his belt,... Read more

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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

By Jennifer A. Doudna (2016) Pages: 281, Final verdict: Should-read The power of controlling human evolution has long been an endeavour reserved to realm of science fiction. For billions of years, our biological destiny has been dictated by nature, expressed in Darwin's theory of evolution, where random genetic mutations shape... Read more

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Why We Sleep

By Matthew Walker (2017) Pages: 340, Final verdict: Should-read Would you be interested in an inexpensive way of prolonging good health, delaying aging, while improving memory and learning? Why We Sleep will convince you that sleep works that magic. It will spark your curiosity, make you fall asleep (to the... Read more

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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

By Richard Preston (2019) Pages: 369, Final verdict: Great-read The ebola epidemic of 2014 sent shock waves of terror across the globe. As the virus spread with unstoppable force across West Africa, the world was flooded with images of the people covered in full body suits, plastic tents turned into... Read more

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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Why We Sleep

Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come