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Book Preview: #1 Jason Greenstein, a forty-seven-year-old man with late-stage cancer, was on his way to a miracle. He was going to defy death by standing on its precipice.
#2 The attack on Jason's left hand was particularly cruel. When Jason was a kid, he was a phenomenal athlete. He had the looks to match, with dark hair and dark eyes. But his laugh was his defining characteristic....
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#1 The first step to fridge love is to appreciate the gift of modern refrigeration. We have the infrastructure and technology to make the healthiest foods possible, and we take this for granted.
#2 Refrigeration is only about 150 years old. Before that, drying, smoking, salting, slathering foods with honey, pickling, and fermenting were the predominant ways to preserve...
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#1 The field of oncology emerged in the 1950s with the use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to target the cell's gene and the cell cycle. What was not recognized was the altered metabolism, which was found to be common to all cancers.
#2 The somatic theory is that the cancer is in the body's cells, and that treating the cancer metabolism will reach the stem cell and offer the chance...
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#1 I was 14 years old when a friend said something that poisoned my mind for 10 years. I was insecure about my appearance, and the thought that someone might not find me attractive because of my bags under my eyes made me hate myself.
#2 I had a critical voice that constantly attacked me and my flaws. It was a constant war between me and my inner critic. I didn't share my insecurities...
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Get the Summary of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism - and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human...
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#1 On January 14, 1905, Jane Stanford, the wealthiest woman in San Francisco, was murdered in her bedroom. She was 76 years old and the cofounder of Leland Stanford Junior University. She was never alone, as she was always surrounded by servants.
#2 The story of how strychnine was put in Jane Stanford's Poland Spring Water is full of contradictions and explanations....
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#1 We all go through this. Age can hit you like a truck, knocking the wind out of your sails. You may feel like you are no longer the person you used to be. But eventually, you morph into the next phase of your life.
#2 The path and changes that you make are meaningful to me, given my own experience. I have begun to shift my focus from saying yes to saying no. Too much...
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#1 The first drug panic in Mexico was in 1908, when the police raided the warehouse of José Del Moral, a marijuana wholesaler, and found thousands of marijuana cigarettes. The newspapers reacted with full-blown hysteria, calling marijuana the poison of the lower classes.
#2 The first Mexican drug panic was in 1838, when newspapers reported that students were using marijuana...
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Book Preview: #1 I remember the ache of the strain on my fragile neck muscles and the root of my tongue. I was three years old when my mother told me about it. I have tried to remember my babysitter's face, but all I can remember is the funky ritual.
#2 I was working at a shoe shine shop when I met Steve, the banker, who would poison the core of my family's life. I didn't know at...
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#1 I was a terrible student growing up, and I was told to follow my passion. I figured that meant doing what I liked, not what I didn't like. I hated math and science, so I avoided them as if they were poison.
#2 Brains are amazing. They are the most sophisticated gadgets in the universe. They change their structure depending on what you do with them. Anyone can do well...
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Get the Summary of Kate Moore's The Radium Girls in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois,...
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#1 The story of civilization is that we have progressed from being primitive and brutish to being sophisticated and abundant. However, this Narrative of Perpetual Progress is poisonously destructive. It generates deep distrust of ourselves and each other, shame and disgust toward our animal bodies, and fear and hostility toward the natural world.
#2 The neo-Hobbesian...
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#1 Vice President Dick Cheney had been practicing for doomsday scenarios for years before 9/11. In the 1980s, while serving as a Republican congressman from Wyoming and a rising power in the conservative leadership in Congress, he participated in one of the most highly classified, top-secret programs of the Reagan Administration.
#2 On October 17, 2001, a white...
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Get the Summary of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be...
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#1 There is too much sympathy for Nazis today. Anything more than zero sympathy is too much sympathy. Because Nazis deserve to die. And American soldiers were reluctant to take Nazi prisoners, because their superior officers wanted to question them and not waste them.
#2 The Reconquista was the name given to the process of reclaiming Spain's territory from the Muslims, which took...
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Get the Summary Robin George Andrews' Super Volcanoes of in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms...
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Get the Summary of Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media's poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to...
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#1 In 1976, a student at Roseville High School, Cynthia Cadieux, was murdered. Her mother, Wanda Nelem, said she and her stepfather did not expect her home that Thursday night, as they thought she was going to stay with her friend and attend school with her in the morning.
#2 On February 15, 1976, Mark Douglas Stebbins, 12, disappeared while walking home from the American...
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#1 I had been up with James for a feeding an hour earlier, and noticed that something was off. I felt nauseous and spacy, and my head was pounding. I took a pregnancy test, which showed the negative sign. So what's wrong with me. I wondered. Food poisoning. Some weird virus.
#2 I was sitting at home on campus preparing for my final exam when I heard Katherine gasping...
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#1 The origins of coffee are lost in legend, but the most popular tale traces its discovery to a goatherd in Ethiopia. By the sixth century A. D., the plant had reached Arabia, where it was used as a food and medicine. Coffee beans were fermented to make wine, or dried, crushed, and eaten.
#2 The word coffee comes from the Arab word qahwah. The botanical name of the...