Review:This book read quickly and was super interesting! I loved learning about the solution to the ages-old problem of figuring longitude while at sea. The technical detail of the problem was written in an easy-to-understand way, and the people in the history are so well-developed that I became emotionally involved with them--empathetic towards 1, frustrated by another, disliked yet another. From a teaching standpoint, this would be a great starting point for a junior high or high school project-ba... Read more

Review:The book is about digital anonymity. It starts with the very basic asks - strong passwords, securing your home network and the like. But soon gets on to things that most wouldn't even imagine. Burner phones are just a baffling idea.

Sites like DuckDuckGo, StartPage and ProtonMail are interesting tools that can be used. Features like pixel tracking, canvas fingerprinting allow online companies to know a lot about what you're doing on their site.

Reading about Tor was refreshing as I... Read more

Review:I wanted something gristly and meaty that would ideally focus on cutting edge physical research/developments and how they would directly impact the world. The kind of stuff you get exposed to on a daily basis if you read reddit and other aggregators. I hoped this would be supplemental and informative; having just trudged through the first section, that on computer developments, I am thoroughly underwhelmed. The dude is mealy mouthed and talks about the most broad vague trends in jaundiced termin... Read more

Review:Not flawless, but a fantastic read.
If you love amazing airplanes, engineering generally, or if you work with Agile and Scrum in the software world, this book is a great perspective.
They were building airplanes with Scrum before anyone thought to give the methodology a name. Read more

Review:I was of the faction that wasnt really too concerned with global warming. At one time the world was covered with molten lava. I still believe that we are a species arent as important as we like to tell ourselves that we are. After reading this book my stance is altered. I believe that we should fulfill the promise to our children, i currently have none, to bring them into this world and give them a better life then we inherited. The facts and figures in this book are hard to deny. Even now i can... Read more

Review:In The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder accompanies a team of young
engineers tasked with building a new computer for Data General. The
project is led by a curt manager with a methodology he calls mushroom
management (keep them in a damp, dark place, and feed them shit) that
would be impossible to instate in any sensible company these days. The
project is of highest significance for the company, and everything is
due yesterday, everyone working in a frantic pace to get the compute... Read more

Review:I highly recommend this book. As a physician, I received very little training on nutrition beyond the simple "calories in / calories out" concept, with a minor focus on what the composition actually looked like. Dr. Longo presents some of his lab's groundbreaking research on fasting and fasting mimicking diets, as well as some general guidelines for what to eat every day, which I find tremendously useful and plan to implement myself. The book does a great job of synthesizing the research behi... Read more

Review:Powerful book that gives the historical facts of how the arid west's water supply has been developed. The huge subsidies and significant impacts of these actions should make all of us question the sanity of continuing this madness. Read more

Review:An eye opening book about public investments in infrastructure projects, primarily water management. The book is quite thorough, well-researched and very readable. It makes your blood boil to see how decisions are made, how much money is wasted, the damage to our planet and its future, and the beneficiaries of government largess. Read more

Review:Seven Pillars of Wisdom is fascinating from cover to cover. The book is on some levels Lawrence's study of himself as much as a history of the battles in which he was involved. He writes, "Any protestation of the truth from me was called modesty, self-depreciation. It always irritated me, this silly confusion of shyness, which was conduct, with modesty, which was a point of view... I was not modest, but ashamed of my awkwardness, of my physical envelope, of my solitary unlikeness which made me n... Read more