13 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson
“Tools for thinking help make people smarter. But they don’t necessarily make them morally better. So what happens when you take brutal rulers and give...
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06 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Imagine a future where an algorithm reads everything from your facial expressions during an interview to everything you have ever shared on social media in...
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29 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: True or False by Cindy L. Otis
This wonderfully useful book written by former CIA analyst Cindy L. Otis is actually meant for young adults to teach them about how to spot...
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22 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
It is perhaps odd to describe a book as both timely and urgent when it was first published more than 15 years ago … but...
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15 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Sibling Effect by Jeffrey Kluger
As part of the celebration for National Siblings Day, I chose to resurface The Sibling Effect this week—a book written several years ago about the impact that...
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08 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Imaginable by Jane McGonigal
If you are a fan of thought exercises and a visual process to help you imagine the future, this is the perfect book for you....
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis
In the words of bestselling author Garrett Graff who recently wrote a review for The Washington Post, this book “examines some of the remarkable people who...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Look Again by Tali Sharot & Cass R. Sunstein
Humans are great at habituation. We can get used to it when things are great, and we can get used to it when they aren’t...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair
There are colors that you may have heard of, and more than a few that you haven’t. This highly original book takes a look at...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Endless Refrain by David Rowell
What would a world without any new music sound like? Perhaps we are already there, a reality music writer and journalist David Rowell explores in...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Community Data by Rahul Bhargava
For my book selection this week I’ll start by sharing that I have known this author for literally his entire life—because it’s my younger brother,...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week:The Long View by Richard Fisher
What will it take to transform the way the world views time? Richard Fisher, a senior journalist with BBC Global News, explores this question and...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: How To Winter by Dr. Kari Leibowitz
February is notorious for being the toughest month of the year for many people. In the Northern hemisphere, these are the cold winter months where social isolation...
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