User:TimidGuy
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I have a Ph.D. in the humanities and a passionate interest in science, technology, and prehistory. And a love for the game of tennis, which I play three times a week.
I'm a Macintosh guy.
This whole Wikipedia thing fascinates me. I loved Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds. And Steven Johnson's Emergence. I definitely think Wikipedia is an instance of the phenomena these books describe.
Here are other books that are my favorites:
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
- Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, by Nicholas Wade
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa, by Stephen Oppenheimer
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne
- The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright
- Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, by Steven Strogatz
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
