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Dan Connors
Dec 15, 20215 min read
Q- Anon - Have we lost our f***ing minds??
The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything Mike Rothschild 2011 When I first heard...
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Dan Connors
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Lost nations that fell of the map
An Atlas of Extinct Countries Gideon Defoe 2021 We take the sovereignty of arbitrary national borders as sacred today, but any look at...
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Dan Connors
Nov 22, 20217 min read
Are you sure about that?? Really?????
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Naomi Oreskes, Erik M....
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Dan Connors
Nov 10, 20217 min read
What makes the muskrat guard his musk?
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave Ryan Holiday 2021 "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on...
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Dan Connors
Oct 27, 20216 min read
The War on Terror and how it failed us
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump Spencer Ackerman 2021 From 1945 to 1989 the United States saw...
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Dan Connors
Oct 21, 20215 min read
Facebook- The algorithm that's killing civilization
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination Sheera Frankel, Cecilia Kang 2021 When I signed up for Facebook back in 2007, I...
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Dan Connors
Oct 4, 20215 min read
Elizabeth Warren persists
Persist Elizabeth Warren- 2021 "People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: the system IS rigged."...
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Dan Connors
Sep 21, 20215 min read
Forget the Alamo- Is Texas history based upon a lie?
Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford 2021 History is told...
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Dan Connors
Sep 10, 20214 min read
Beyond The Castle- A Disney veteran looks behind the curtain
Beyond the Castle: A Guide to Discovering Your Happily Ever After Jody Jean Dreyer 2017 Have you ever wondered what it's like to work...
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Dan Connors
Sep 9, 20216 min read
Blaming the poor- why do we get poverty all wrong?
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock 2021 “History...
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Dan Connors
Aug 26, 20217 min read
How can we protect ourselves from bad ideas and wrong information?
Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think Andy Norman 2021 How can anybody be so...
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Dan Connors
Aug 11, 20214 min read
Healthy brains- how to keep sharp in a stupid world
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age Sanjay Gupta 2020 What's the secret to good, lifelong health? How can we...
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Dan Connors
Aug 5, 20213 min read
John Green takes on the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 2021 What is the Anthropocene? It's the tiny bit of Earth history that has been dominated by...
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Dan Connors
Aug 2, 20215 min read
Evil Geniuses- The Unmaking of America?
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America Kurt Andersen 2020 Most people agree that something profound happened to American politics and...
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Dan Connors
Jul 15, 20214 min read
How to Change- anything?
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Katy Milkman 2021 Are we slaves to our past, or are we...
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Dan Connors
Jul 6, 20215 min read
Noisy judgements- why we can't always trust our gut
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein 2021 Insurance adjusters, judges, doctors, and...
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Dan Connors
Jun 27, 20216 min read
Don't Even Think About It- Why is Global Warming too much for our brains?
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change George Marshall 2014 We've all heard the warnings. Our...
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Dan Connors
Jun 5, 20216 min read
Can the One Percenters be redeemed?
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good...
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Dan Connors
May 27, 20216 min read
How systemic racism makes EVERYBODY poorer
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather McGhee 2021 How is a drained swimming pool a metaphor...
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Dan Connors
May 20, 20215 min read
Deaths of Despair
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Anne Case, Angus Deaton 2020 What exactly are "deaths of despair", and why has this...
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