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Unweaving the Rainbow
essay by Richard Dawkins
The naked ape
1967 book by zoologist Desmond Morris
Dream Pool Essays
non-fiction work by Shen Kuo
The Demon-Haunted World
1995 essay by Carl Sagan
Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved
TiHKAL: The Continuation, also known as Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved, is a 1997 book written by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin. It is about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines, which includes psychedelics, other hallucinogens, and entactogens. The book has two halves, and the second part of the book contains detailed entries on 55tryptamines. TiHKAL is a sequel to PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved) (1991).
The Two Cultures
Rede lecture held in 1959 by Charles Percy Snow (published as an essay in the same year), theorizing a splitting between two cultures (humanistic and scientific) in Western education patterns, as a major hindrance to solving the world's problems
Cosmos
1845 essay by Alexander von Humboldt
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
1977 essay by Carl Sagan
Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved
PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, also known as Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved, is a book by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin published in 1991. The subject of the work is psychoactive phenethylamine chemical derivatives, notably those that act as psychedelics and/or entactogens. The book has two halves, with the second part containing detailed entries on 179phenethylamines. PiHKAL was followed by TiHKAL: The Continuation (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved) (1997).
A New Kind of Science
non-fiction work by Stephen Wolfram
The Sixth Extinction
popular science book by Elizabeth Kolbert
Fooled by Randomness
non-fiction work by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
scientific book
nonfiction book about science
What If?
2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe
The Emperor's New Mind
essay by Roger Penrose
The Third Culture
book
The Panda's Thumb
collection of essays by Stephen Jay Gould
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
book
Bad Pharma
essay by Ben Goldacre
Lexicon Technicum
book by John Harris
Physics and Beyond
book
Magia Naturalis
book by Giambattista della Porta
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
book by Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
collection of edited transcriptions of Carl Sagan's 1985 Gifford lectures
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
non-fiction work by Martin Gardner
Laboratory Life
book by Bruno Latour
Good Faith Collaboration
non-fiction work by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity
book by Benjamin Franklin
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
book by Joseph Priestley
Antiquarian science books
original historical works on science and technology
I Am a Strange Loop
non-fiction work by Douglas Hofstadter
The Meme Machine
essay by Susan Blackmore
Longitude
essay by Dava Sobel