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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Second, when you clearly define a yardstick, a time, and a place, culturist claims may well be empirically sound. But all too often people adopt very general culturist claims that make little sense.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Overall, it appears that more than 15,000 “human cognitive sex difference” studies were performed between 1968 and 2008. The enthusiasm for this area of research does not appear to be slowing, given that more than 4,000 of these studies occurred between 1998 and 2008.
A Tapestry of Values
Kevin C. Elliott
These parallels can be dismissed as merely intriguing biomorphizations, but the ascendance of machines has been an undeniable fact.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
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