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Mark Frauenfelder, Book FreakThe most useful ideas from one great nonfiction book, every week. Takes three minutes to read.
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The forgotten H.G. Wells novel that reads like next week
Book Freak #265 — Deep Cut Edition
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928) is the late, nearly-forgotten H. G. Wells novel that he called his own Candide. A comfortable Englishman is betrayed, breaks down, and washes up among the canniba...
Book Freak: The skeptic's guide to meditation that actually works
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10% Happier is a skeptic’s journey into meditation, showing how taming the voice in your head can reduce stress without losing your edge.
Core Principles
1. You Can’t Control Your Thoughts, But You Can Control...
Book Freak #214: Thoughts Without a Thinker
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Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist who also meditates, and in Thoughts Without a Thinker he uses both practices to make the point that the solid, permanent self we work so hard to build and protect is the same se...
Book Freak #213: Sleep Groove
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Sleep Groove is a myth-busting guide to circadian science that teaches you to work with your body’s natural rhythms rather than fight them, using accessible explanations, charts, and comics.
As I get older, I wake up in t...
Book Freak #212: Prometheus Rising
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I read Robert Anton Wilson’s Prometheus Rising when I was in my early 20s, and it has stuck with me ever since (I’ve re-read it several times). It’s a manual for understanding how your mind got programmed and how to r...
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