Archive - Jason's Reading List

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, is a Pulitzer-winning book about the ultimate causes of progress in civilizations. I didn’t read GGS for a…

Sep 9, 2019

The Alchemy of Air is the story of the Haber-Bosch process, the lives of the men who created it, and its consequences for world agriculture and for…

Sep 9, 2019

The theme of Enlightenment Now is contained in its subtitle: it is that reason, science and humanism lead to progress. The corollary is: keep it up! To…

Sep 9, 2019

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