Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
The Dinosaur Expert
Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes
Bigger Than You
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    Radiant Relief: A Case for a Better Solution to Chronic Pain
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    Release date: Aug 28, 2018
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  • The Anxiety Code by Roger Di Pietro
    The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety
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  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
    The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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  • This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Coming Storm
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1)
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
    The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
    L'ordine del tempo
    Grit
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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    Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance
    1,238 books — 1,298 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittQuiet by Susan CainThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
    661 books — 495 voters

    Being and Time by Martin HeideggerA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Undiscovered Self by C.G. JungFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
    Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
    287 books — 254 voters
    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
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    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDivergent by Veronica RothTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    All Sorts Favourites
    832 books — 769 voters
    My Lady Love by Bridgitte LesleyYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl WigginsWitch in the Woods by Taylor Ann BunkerCalico Jack in your Garden by Karl WigginsWood, Talc and Mr. J by Chris   Rose
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Origin of Species
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    The Grand Design
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    His Favorite Books About the Sea: Grab a thick blanket and a hot toddy to read this journalist's favorite bedtime books about the sea, the briny subject of his new work of nonfiction, Atlantic.
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    Debate Highlights-My Musings on Life in General
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    Addonexus
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