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What Star Trek: Discovery should have been
My opinion of Star Trek: Discovery is positive, but there’s still something that annoys me and since it’s a bit of a spoiler, you should stop reading here until you watched season 1. Star Trek: Discovery shouldn’t have been a prequel. STD (oops, unfortunate acronym) should have been a sequel to all the other Star…
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Book Review: Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
I was expecting a funny read of math curiosities and indeed there was plenty of humor and curiosities in this book in the style of Matt Parker (Google him and watch his videos, he’s great); but this book had much more than that. Some parts of the book were not easy at all. I’m glad…
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Read this before watching Star Trek: Discovery
I just finished watching Star Trek: Discover and although I’m not blown away, I did enjoy it and I’m looking forward to how the story continues. There were three points that felt wrong about the series but if you approach them with the right mind-frame you can minimize their impact on your enjoyment because they…
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Book Review: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
I went into this book with the wrong expectation. When it says “A Journey” in the title, it really means it. The book is a journal. It almost feels like the making-of of The Psychopath Test, instead of the book itself. The whole book is written in first person, with no other order than time…
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Book Review: The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by Adam Gazzaley, Larry D. Rosen
My review of this book is going to sound a bit negative, but my regard for it is not, hence the four-stars. The book is nicely divided in three sections. The first one is the brain, how it works, studies, it’s history and evolution. The second section is about the effect of the technological world…