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The main idea of Sex at Dawn in less than 20 words: Humans beings were not always monogamous creatures.

In this episode of On books we cover three of the main ideas in Sex at Dawn, as well as listen to excerpts from Christopher Ryan's TED Talk

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In this episode I chat about Writing Movies for Fun and Profit by Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. I'm joined by One Month's Zach Valenti and Sydney Flint. 

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Thinking, Fast and Slow is a best-selling 2011 book by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner Daniel Kahneman which summarizes research that he conducted over decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky. It covers all three phases of his career: his early days working on cognitive biases, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness.

In this episode of On books I chat with Alex Miles Younger about some of our favorite learnings from book. 

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Thinking, Fast and Slow is a best-selling 2011 book by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner Daniel Kahneman which summarizes research that he conducted over decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky. It covers all three phases of his career: his early days working on cognitive biases, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness.

In this episode of On books I chat with Alex Miles Younger about some of our favorite learnings from book. 

 Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

This week I discuss Catching the Big Fish (by David Lynch) with Kevin Allison (RISK!; MTV's The State, and Reno 911).

In our interview we chat about the book, as well as: finding creativity, Transcendental Meditation, self-help books,  and Kevin's exploration into the world of erotic hypnosis workshops.

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In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks tells 24 short-stories (all true) of some of his patients. The first chapter chronicles the story of one of Sacks' patients with visual agnosia (face-blindness) who literally mistakes his wife for a hat.

The book is split into four sections: each section dealing with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits, excesses, and altered perceptions.

In this episode of On books we cover three Oliver Sacks books: Awakenings, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (the story), Musicophilia. As well as an interview with Princeton University Neuroscience Professor Nathaniel Daw.  Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

Habit - a decision you made at some point. And then stopped making, but continue acting upon.

In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg brings us scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter at The New York Times, where he writes for the business section. You can follow him on Twitter @cduhigg.

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It's based on this quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, 

Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”  - Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)

In this quote, Cassius seems to be arguing that it's not fate that controls our lives, but rather that we're in control, and that we are thus responsible.

The title The Fault in Our Stars seems to be saying the opposite. With the two main characters, Augustus and Hazel, John Green shows us of that sometimes we're not in control of our lives.

Clearly Augustus and Hazel didn't do anything to cause the cancer they have, yet they have to live with it. The book poses the question: is it possible to find happiness in life despite the fault in our stars?

In this episode of On Books I chat The Fault in Our Stars with Kate Gavino (The author and illustrator behind lastnightsreading.tumblr.com). 

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This week on the show I chat with Mark Katakowski and Steven Clausnitzer of ForeverLabs. ForeverLabs is a Y Combinator company that helps people live longer by offering stem cell banking and storage. 

In this episode, we'll chat talk about the book that inspired Mark and Steven to start the project (Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey) as well as how ForeverLabs works (How do you get started banking your stem cells? Is it safe?). And I'll share my experience having my stems cells banks last week using ForeverLabs. 

Learn more about ForeverLabs here: https://foreverlabs.com/

Details of my experience are online at: https://castig.org/how-i-banked-my-stem-cells/

 And.....

🎉 I have a new podcast called the LEARN TO CODE PODCAST. 🎉 

Read the announcement about my new podcast here: https://learn.onemonth.com/new-learn-to-code-podcast/

In Blink, Gladwell shares stories that celebrate the power of quick decisions, as well as those moments when our instincts betray us.

In this episode of On books we cover: Thin-slicing, and "The Right - and Wrong - Way to Ask People What They Want." This includes stories of Coke vs. Pepsi, Butter vs. Margarine, and a man who can predict with 95% accuracy whether a couple will still be married fifteen years later (just after meeting them for 15 minutes).

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