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- Jim Al-KhaliliInterview
That’s a tough one. On reflection, I’d say: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
- The Most Important Books On AstronomyReading list
I read this after finishing my PhD and as I began to take stock of the world we live on and the way we treat each other. Growing up, I had never taken seriously magicians, astrologers, and others with big claims backed by no evidence. In fact, it was frustrating to see how well these types of persons fooled what…
- Brian DunningInterview
I will start with the standard, that almost all of my colleagues would include, and that’s The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. That’s the best way to shake people and let them know that there’s a whole world they’ve been missing simply because they’ve been going with the flow and…
- Michael ShermerInterview
In my youthful 20s it was Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. After that, Stephen Jay Gould’s essay collections, such as The Panda’s Thumb, The Flamingo’s Smile, and his short treatise Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle. Later, Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker.
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