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We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist

Each relationship is presented in three parts –the backstory, the hypothesis, and the investigation – and hilarious charts and diagrams accompany each pseudo-scientific relationship analysis. Josh may have struck out...

Posted by on September 10, 2016

  • 5 stars out of 5

Ordinarily Well by Peter Kramer

Are antidepressants important, lifesaving drugs or nothing more than puffed up placebos? If you're curious to dig into the science behind this question, Ordinarily Well provides a methodical, accessible defense...

Posted by on September 8, 2016

  • 4 stars out of 5

Infectious Madness by Harriet Washington

Harriet Washington’s latest book is a fascinating jaunt through current and historical research into the infectious origins of mental illness. From the link between schizophrenia and Toxoplasma gondii (a parasite...

Posted by on October 29, 2015

  • 4 stars out of 5

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

Bad Pharma provides insight into the cycle of developing, testing, and regulating drugs—and where that process can break down, a sort of meta-knowledge necessary to being a savvy and skeptical...

Posted by on August 28, 2013

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