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Brain Food - Books are Food for your Brain

Sharon Cortelyou

Writing that analyzes non-fiction books touching on topics that range from politics, culture, history, and psychology. Along with summaries, the writing includes essays that help make sense of the overwhelming information in our world.

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Latest Issues

The Containment Trap

Last month, our big picture narrative series explored Mustafa Suleyman’s views about AI in his book, “The Coming Wave.” He suggests we must find a balance between technological anarchy and authoritarian over-containment. But he says that we...

4 days ago
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HCR and the 1900s

This week, we will continue our series on U.S. history. Last month, we were looking at Jill ‘s book, “These Truths,” focusing on the 20th century. This month, we will get back to Heather Cox Richardson’s book,”How the South won the Civil Wa...

8 days ago
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Emotions Matter

Another writer and academic, who like Jonathan Haidt, explains foundational ideas in human psychology is Leonard Mlodinow. We already looked at two of his books, “Emotional” and “Subliminal.” When I wrote about Mlodinow’s work earlier, we f...

15 days ago
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Balance

How can I follow up last month’s post about love as a political philosophy? If you haven’t read it, please go back and take a look. It was titled, “All About Love.” So, this month, I will be discussing something that is just as crucial to f...

22 days ago
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The Coming Wave

One of my readers asked a while back if I would cover a book about AI. So here it is. But first, let me share my own AI story. I do not have AI write my pieces. That would defeat the whole purpose. But I have used AI to brainstorm, for some...

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