“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
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Books

SCIENCE/BIOLOGY

• Taking Wing by Pat Shipman
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
• Night Comes to the Cretaceous by James Powell
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• There Are No Electrons by Kenn Amdahl
• The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
• Microcosmos by Lynne Margulis and Dorion Sagan
• Life on a Young Planet by Andrew H. Knoll
• When Life Nearly Died by Michael Benton
• Eating the Sun by Oliver Morton
• Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World by Nick Lane
• The Planet in a Pebble by Jan Zalasiewicz
• Written in Stone by Brian Switek
• Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould

HISTORY

•  A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill

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Podcasts

• Revolutions by Mike Duncan
• The History of Rome by Mike Duncan
• The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo
• The History of the World in 100 Objects by the BBC
• Minute Physics on YouTube