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Exiting the Echo Chamber
Scott McLemee reviews Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Chris Bail.
Following the Traces
Scott McLemee highlights some of the noteworthy books coming out in the first half of 2021.
Averting Catastrophe, or Not
Scott McLemee reviews Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds, by Cass R. Sunstein.
The Purposelessness Driven Life
Scott McLemee reviews Tom Lutz's Aimlessness.
Lost in Space
Scott McLemee reviews From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way by Michael Bond.
All This Dubious Abundance, and More
Scott McLemee reviews Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A. Woloson.
Podcasting a Polymath
Scott McLemee discusses the podcast A Very Square Peg: The Strange and Remarkable Life of the Polymath Robert Eisler.
Pandemic in Print
Scott McLemee highlights the considerable number of current and forthcoming books flagged as pertinent to COVID-19 and its impact, or to pandemics more broadly.