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Why do most popular science books suck? - by Erik Hoel
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On the overwhelming needlessness of nonfiction
Why do most popular science books suck? On the overwhelming needlessness of nonfiction Erik Hoel Sep 22, 2021 61 27 Share Art for The Intrinsic Perspective is by Alexander Naughton A bookshelf is laid out before you. It’s stuffed with photorealistic covers showing off black holes, the curvature of Earth seen from space, glossy pictures of double helixes, along with faded images of the Vitruvian Man. Everything is impossibly exciting. Did scientists just uncover the God Particle? Who killed Pluto? Wait, I killed Pluto? Here’s what’s definitely going to happen at the end of the universe. Here’s
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