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Intriguing and valuable

Revisado: 03-07-25

As usual, Gladwell brings together a lot of intriguing information and insights. There’s a lot to think about on the subject of how people understand each other, and how that sheds light on how and why interactions with the police go so horribly wrong so often.

Be warned, though: much of the subject matter is emotionally really difficult to listen to. There’s extensive discussion of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, and torture methods. I’m happy to have read this book but it was definitely not bedtime reading.

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Finally, the truth about dieting

Revisado: 10-20-18

Everyone should read this- whether they are obese or not.

The author unflinching reviews the extensive scientific evidence that diets do more harm than good— whether your metric is health, happiness, or even weight. Yes, that’s right, diets make people more fat in the long run. Your doctor, if he’s advising you to diet, is prescribing an intervention that will probably make you more fat in the long run. Why the hell is he doing that? He would know better if he read the scientific literature.

Aamodt is a scientist, so parts of the book sound like a review article in a scientific journal. It’s well worth slogging through, though, to get to the practical advice at the end. The relationship between weight and health is entirely mediated by exercise and eating vegetables. So if you just exercise and eat vegetables, you can be healthier without tormenting yourself. Aamodt recommends exercising, eating fruits and vegetables, eating mindfully when you eat anything else, and learning to change your habits in a gradual, sustainable way.

Eating mindfully means listening to your body, and being fully there and appreciate of the experience of yummy food, NOT trying to take conscious control of your calorie balance— the latter is a futile effort if you’re trying to maintain a large weight loss.

Full marks for narration because I appreciate an author reading her own work. She isn’t a professional voice actor, but she brings personal interest to the work, and gets all the big scientific words right.

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Excellent

Revisado: 09-05-18

Fascinating and delightful in a gruesome kind a of way. The characters in this story are compelling. Gaiman’s narration is perfect.

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Great Doctor Who fun

Revisado: 07-15-18

For anyone who can’t get enough of the 10th Doctor! David Tennant does a great job with the narration, really giving voice to all the characters.

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enjoyable and thought-provoking

Revisado: 07-12-18

The authors take on many of the questions that make up human life: How many apartments should you view before taking one, and how many people should you date before proposing marriage? How much time should you spend trying to optimally sort your to-do list? Should you bother organizing your book shelf? Are you working towards the right goals at the gym, and why, if it’s so bad for you, does cheesecake taste so good? Are you checking your email, and letting your smart phone interrupt you, too often? (Spoiler: YES.) Why do we need government? They shed interesting light on such questions by analyzing them as a computer scientist would.

The narration is very well done. Clear and enjoyable to listen to.

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