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Imagined worlds

Freeman J. Dyson

1998

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?

Martin Gardner

2000

This idea must die

John Brockman

2015

Naming Nature

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

2009

1,411 quite interesting facts to knock you sideways

John Lloyd, James Harkin, John Mitchinson

2014

1,234 Quite Interesting Facts to Leave You Speechless

John Lloyd, James Harkin, John Mitchinson

2015

Scientists and Scoundrels

Robert Silverberg

1965

AsapSCIENCE

Mitch Moffit

2015

The ingenious mind of nature

Hall, George M.

1997

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Ralph Leighton, Richard Phillips Feynman

1988 ★ 3.9

Serendipity

Royston M. Roberts

1989

365 surprising scientific facts, breakthroughs, and discoveries

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

1994

Everyday Science Experiments in the Kitchen (Hartzog, Daniel.)

John Daniel Hartzog

2000

Billions and billions

Carl Sagan

1997 ★ 3.8

Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos

Jeremy Bernstein

1993

Elephants on acid

Alex Boese

2007

The Borderlands of Science

Michael Shermer

2001

The Ig Nobel Prizes 2

Marc Abrahams

2005

Discover's 20 things you didn't know about everything

2008

Ask a science teacher

Larry Scheckel

2013

The Secret Life of Dust

Hannah Holmes

2001

The unpersuadables

Will Storr

2013 ★ 4.0

Paradigms lost

John L. Casti

1989

All facts considered

Kee Malesky

2010

Paradox

Jim Al-Khalili

2012

Forbidden Science

J. Douglas Kenyon

2008

Why people believe weird things

Michael Shermer

1997 ★ 4.3

Why aren't black holes black?

Robert M. Hazen

1997

Science friction

Michael Shermer

2005

Everything's Relative

Tony Rothman

2003

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