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Broaden Your Knowledge

Broaden Your Knowledge

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A selection of Blinks to bring you a mix of new knowledge about yourself and the world.

Broaden Your Knowledge

A selection of Blinks mixing knowledge about yourself and the world

How to Create a Mind
How to Create a Mind
Ray Kurzweil
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
16 min4.4
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer
39 min4.5
Bunk
Bunk
Kevin Young
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
16 min3.4
Attached
Attached
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love
19 min4.2
Tubes
Tubes
Andrew Blum
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
10 min3.6
The Tao of Physics
The Tao of Physics
Fritjof Capra
An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
22 min4.3
Capitalism without Capital
Capitalism without Capital
Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
The Rise of the Intangible Economy
26 min4.5
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
Teaser: How your favorite drinks changed the world
18 min4.3
The Hidden Life of Trees
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
21 min4.6

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