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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.