Field Notes from an Uncertain Science By: Siddhartha Mukherjee Published: 2015 Read: 2020 Summary: Despite the increasing accuracy of medical tests and other advances, much of modern medicine still takes place under conditions of incomplete information and uncertainty, partly because
The divided brain and the making of the Western world By: Iain McGilchrist Published: 2009 Read: 2020 Summary: The two hemispheres of our brain (left and right) differ in coherent neuropsychological, anatomical, physiological and chemical ways. Part 1 explores how differences
A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion By: Sam Harris Published: 2014 Read: 2019 Summary: Many people have had spiritual experiences. Altered states of consciousness characterized by feelings such as self-transcending love, awe, ecstasy or bliss. Trying to make sense of
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence By: Michael Pollan Published: 2018 Read: 2019 Summary: Over the past two decades, science has renewed its interest in the potential benefits of “psychedelic therapy”
Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter By: Patrick McKeown Published: 2015 Read: 2017 Summary: We breathe in oxygen and we breathe out carbon dioxide (CO2). The reason we feel the need to
How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day By: Ken Mogi Published: 2018 Read: 2018 Summary: Ikigai is sometimes described as the reason you get out of bed in the morning. It usually is shown as being
By: Clayton Christensen Published: 2012 Read: 2018 Summary: Management theories typically used to analyze companies, company strategies, and industries are used instead to define and explain what causes success, happiness and meaning in people’s lives, relationships and careers. As these
Paths, dangers, strategies By: Nick Bostrom Published: 2014 Read: 2016 Summary: Intelligence: skill at prediction, planning and means-ends instrumental reasoning (not: normative, rationality or reason). General intelligence: possessing common sense and an effective ability to learn, reason, and plan to
The evolutionary origins of a good society By: Nicholas A. Christakis. Published: 2019 Read: 2019 Summary: Natural selection has equipped us with the capacity and desire to form and join groups. It is argued that humans universally evolved a set
How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance By: Nessa Carey Published: 2012 Read: 2018 Summary: Epigenetics refers to external modifications of DNA that regulate the expression of genes, turning them “on” or “off.” While the