Open Thread 239

I’ve decided to publish ten more book reviews the next ten Fridays. The 2022 Book Review Contest is over. Please vote for your favorite here .

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I’ve decided to publish ten more book reviews the next ten Fridays. The new finalists are … haha, just kidding! The 2022 Book Review Contest is over. Please vote for your favorite here . No fancy voting system this year, just pick one. In case you’ve forgotten your options, they are: - Consciousness And The Brain - Making Nature (history of the scientific journal Nature ) - The Anti-Politics Machine (how development aid goes wrong) - The Castrato - The Dawn Of Everything (ancient hunter-gatherers) - The Future Of Fusion Energy - The Internationalists (treaty to make war illegal) - The Outlier (biography of Jimmy Carter) - The Righteous Mind - The Society Of The Spectacle - Viral (was COVID a lab leak?) - Exhaustion (chronic fatigue) - God Emperor Of Dune - 1587: A Year Of No Significance (Ming China) - Kora In Hell (William Carlos Williams poetry) 2: The ACX podcast team is involved in a new project, Radio Bostrom , broadcasting works by futurist philosopher Nick Bostrom. 3: In case you missed it, Astral Codex Ten is having in-person meetups in about two hundred cities worldwide. This coming week’s biggest meetups include Canberra on Wednesday, Helsinki on Saturday, and Tel Aviv next Sunday - but there are also many more, check here for the full list.