Category: Social History
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Review: The Cult of Crossfit
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 functional movements, but I fear the man who has deadlift 10,000 times.
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Review: Everything Must Go
My attempt to write this review in the style of R.E.M.’s “The End of the World” was unsuccessful. It came out way more “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
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Review: The Shortest History of Eugenics
Actually, the shortest history of eugenics is “don’t!”.
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Review: Excited Delirium
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. – S. J. Gould
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Review: A History of Fireworks
A non-fiction holiday read, in that you will want to blow some stuff up afterwards.