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“Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” is an autobiographical book written by Cathy Park Hong. She is a Korean American author, and it was her first autobiography. The book deals with the emotions of being disregarded in a predominantly white society while being a part of a marginalized society group. The author describes what systemic …

Whatever happens to life on Earth, the Moon has always played and will play a certain role in it: sometimes scanty, sometimes secondary, and sometimes very important. The “reputation” of the Moon in the eyes of earthlings has always been very unstable and depended both on scientific discoveries and on many much more mundane things. …

How to stop being afraid and learn the atomic bomb The first part is devoted to the events that began in Europe at the dawn of the 20th century and eventually led to the launch of the Manhattan Project – we are talking primarily about scientific discoveries in the field of nuclear physics. Rhodes presents …

Russell proceeds from the fact that the mass anxiety is well-grounded: the development of artificial intelligence may well follow the scenario of The Matrix, The Terminator and other works where leather bastards are ultimately defeated by smart machines. The researcher sees the main problem in the fact that AI in the XX-XXI centuries is based …

The author of the unforgettable hit “Guns, Germs and Steel,” rehabilitating geographic determinism, has written a book about how states survive systemic tests of strength. Diamond selected seven countries as research cases based on the principle of personal acquaintance and deep immersion in local issues (perhaps not a very convincing criterion, but let’s say). The …

Lithuanian-Canadian cultural historian Laimonas Briedis chose a special format for the biography of his native city: Vilnius appears in the notes and memoirs of significant travelers. Here before the eyes of Catholic missionaries pass the lush pagan oak groves of the principality, which was baptized only at the end of the 14th century. Diplomat von …

Laurent Garnier is a famous French DJ, composer, techno enthusiast, co-founder of the F Communications label. Electroshock is a techno biography written by one of its frontmen and main adepts. Garnier shares the details of his personal life, but only if they are directly or indirectly related to the music, which he literally obsessed with. …