Books featured on the podcast "If Books Could Kill" hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri. "The airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds."
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In Covid's Wake by Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee
The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half …
Phil in SF says: Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"
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Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of …
Phil in SF says: Did you know that in the split-second it took you to read the title of this episode, your subconscious already figured out that it was going to be extremely good?
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He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
He says:
Oh sure, they say they're busy. They say that they didn't have even a moment in their insanely …
Phil in SF says: How one comedian's offhand advice launched a decent TV episode, a mediocre book and a terrible movie.
