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Month: April 2021

April 30, 2021December 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson

April 30, 2021June 22, 2021 Michael Magoon

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April 29, 2021May 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Ethnic Inequality” by Alesina, Michalopoulos & Papaioannou

April 28, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely

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Book Summary: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ” by Pluckrose & Lindsay

April 26, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business” by Atkinson and Lind

April 23, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum

April 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson

April 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Recent Acceleration of Human Adaptive Evolution” by many

April 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome” by many

April 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips

April 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil

April 16, 2021November 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer

April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country” by James Fearon

April 14, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart

April 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan

April 12, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon

April 11, 2021December 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

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April 9, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “An Introduction to Agricultural Geography” by David Grigg

April 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg

April 7, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel

April 6, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert Kelly

April 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

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