The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
Simon Jones, who was the voice of Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy radio program, narrates which makes hearing quirky facts about human behavior especially fun.
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
Lightweight speculative survey of mind research.
A lot of the material is verbatim from the Archive of American Television's Leonard Nimoy interview:
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/leonard-nimoy
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/leonard-nimoy
This isn't so much a book as a a write-up of a conference talk. Worse, it is essential content-free; just bunch of buzz-words.
This isn't so much a book as a management-style slide presentation puffed up with interstitial text. From a technical standpoint it is content-free.
The sound effects were super annoying.
The writing is atrocious -- just endless strings of cliches that don't even make sense. Watch the miniseries instead.
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen
Read mostly like a list of movies made by comedians of the seventies & eighties with a handful of stores that felt like they were lifted from magazines.
More of a survey.
Interesting bits -- maybe language doesn't have critical period or specialize neural hardware.
Interesting bits -- maybe language doesn't have critical period or specialize neural hardware.
The book is all over the place, but each section was worth reading. The section on faith talking about Christianity vs Judaism reminded me of Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small's discussions.
Doesn't really work as an audio book -- reading binary representations of turning machines...
Essentially a book-length list of chemicals.
Interesting that there were several comments about the disparity between what CEOs and regular workers make. Regulation and oversight to protect the global financial system was a common theme to much of his work as Fed chairman and beyond.
Sadly it is apparent we haven't learned the lessons.





























