GoodReads Rating: 3.83/5
Everyone knows that timing is
everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Our lives are a
never-ending stream of “when” decisions: when to start a business,
schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those
decisions based on intuition and guesswork.
Timing, it’s often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science.
Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and
economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we
use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do
certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn
a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to
the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people
as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job,
switch careers, or get married?
In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on
timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative
packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give
readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged
lives.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.81/5
In a sparkling debut in the
entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne
examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you.
She reveals how swearing has been around since the earliest humans began
to communicate, and has been shown to reduce physical pain, to lower
anxiety, to prevent physical violence, to help trauma victims recover
language, and to promote human cooperation. Packed with the results of
unlikely and often hilarious scientific studies— from the “ice bucket
test” for coping with pain, to the connection between Tourette’s and
swearing, to a chimpanzee who curses at her handler in sign language—Swearing Is Good for You presents a lighthearted but convincing case for the foulmouthed.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.72/5
As
told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of
corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s
personal journey, one that is taking place today inside a storied
technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as
intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous. It’s about
how people, organizations and societies can and must hit
refresh—transform—in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas,
relevance and renewal. At the core, it’s about us humans and our unique
qualities, like empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world
where the torrent of technology will disrupt like never before. As much
a humanist as a technologist, Nadella defines his mission and that of
the company he leads as empowering every person and every organization
on the planet to achieve more.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.13/5
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and
new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a
narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s
genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as
passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful
that it flirted with fantasy.
He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and
technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued
innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying
machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the
crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his
drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.
His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having
wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew
the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most
memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays
strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper.
Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging
theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.
Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate
recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a
misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted,
and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of
instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received
knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like
talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.
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Goodreads Choice 2017 Winner
GoodReads Rating: 4.14/5
What is the nature of space
and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit
within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding
questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil
deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson
brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling
wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy
day.
While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next
cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to
quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for
life in the universe.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.85/5
Foer’s unlikely journey
from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion
frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on
every aspect of our lives.
On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for
things they’ve forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people.
But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of
the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital
truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of
our memories.
Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a
surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the
mentalist’s trade to transform our understanding of human remembering.
Under the tutelage of top “mental athletes,” he learns ancient
techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by
Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been
largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve
our memories.
Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive
memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as
much as determination–showing that memorization can be anything but
rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to
the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of
imaginary structures, Foer’s experience shows that the World Memory
Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and
creativity.
Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental
athletes-across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he
meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on
record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more
reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a
savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a
high school in the South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using
twenty- five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an
edge in the state Regents exam.
At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our
individual memories obsolete, Foer’s bid to resurrect the forgotten art
of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein
brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and
readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too
often slips our minds.
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