Frans de Waal – Mama’s last hug
Especially interesting are the behavioral experiments, reminiscent of the line of argument in Moral Tribes
Forget about stopping climate change, but don´t let that stop you fighting it
David Wallace-Wells – The uninhabitable earth
The book clearly illustrates that climate change is the prisoner’s dilemma ‘par excellence’
The combination of vested interests in theoretical physics and experimental energy limits leads to bad science
Sabine Hossenfelder – Lost in math
The author stresses that following negative results of experiments, theories are typically watered-down just to the extent that they are untestable – reminiscent of Bruno Latour’s “social constructionof scientific facts”
To succeed, do something that you like so much that you are willing to put in the required effort
The book starts as more-or-less scientific research into drivers of success, but ends as motivational self-help literature.