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Raising Critical Thinkers, by Julie Bogart
While there is a seemingly infinite number of issues facing education at the present, I would argue none is more pressing than equipping this young generation with the necessary critical thinking skills to navigate the world. At this point, it’s annoyingly cliché to point out the over-abundance of information circulating on the Internet, and resorting
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An Immense World, by Ed Yong
Every so often a book comes along that is so unbelievably interesting that I have absolutely no choice to share it with most people close to me. An Immense World is such a book. I was hooked from the first few sentences and throughout every single chapter. I even took my time reading it because
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Anguished English, by Richard Lederer
Here’s a really silly book about the uses and misuses of the English language. It’s less of a book written by the author and more a compilation of some of the wildest and funniest mistakes, errors, misappropriations and other uses of the English language. First chapter is mostly about school and was, for me at
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
I don’t think there is any debate as to who is the best known detective in all of fiction. Conan Doyle’s consulting detective has been adapted and re-adapted countless times in so many different eras and genres. Apparently, Sherlock Holmes has been the recipient of a Guinness World Record as the most portrayed individual in
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Thinking 101, by Woo-Kyoung Ahn
If you’re like me, you’ve probably asked yourself, multiple times, something along the lines of “how can that person think that way?” or “how did they arrive at such a weird/ridiculous/wrong/stupid conclusion?” We’ve all thought it and it’s absolutely certain that someone else has thought the same about us. How ideas/opinions/thoughts emerge and how they
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, book two), by Robin Hobb
A couple of months ago I wrote about the first instalment in the Farseer Trilogy, Assassin’s Apprentice, and thought the universe set up by Robin Hobb was intriguing. It left me wanting for more. The first book felt like a gigantic introduction to a new world where we learn about its geography, its political realities,
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The Book of the Moon : A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor, by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
By now, anyone who knows me even a little understands that I have a deep passion for most sciences, especially physics and astronomy in the past couple of years. It seems like every time I come across a science book that looks remotely interesting, I’ll be tempted. And now it’s much worse since I have
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Endure : Mind, Body and Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, by Alex Hutchinson (fr)
Je nourris depuis longtemps une admiration sans fin pour les athlètes de haut niveau, ceux et celles qui défient les limites de qui semble possible d’accomplir avec le simple corps humain. Tous les sports m’intéressent d’une manière ou d’une autre, mais les épreuves d’athlétisme règnent au sommet pour ce qui est de stimuler l’émerveillement. Les
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The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks
Let’s get one thing out of the gate, the title of this book belongs in the Hall of Fame of Book Titles. And if such a thing does not exist, we’ll have to create it from scratch. It obviously played a role in me buying it, but I had heard of Oliver Sacks beforehand. A
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Why does E = mc^2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Is there a more famous equation in all of science? Even kids have told me lately that E was equal to mc2 (they’ll say the two out loud as “two” and not as “squared” when they are younger) and usually feel like geniuses for even remembering the order of the letters. I probably did that
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