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1. Time Travel: A History

   James Gleick

   “Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.”

   One of the greatest writers of our time on how our cultural fascination with time travel illuminates memory, the nature of time, and the central mystery of human consciousness:

2. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

   James Gleick

   Knowledge was rarer then. A secondhand magazine was an occasion… Each book Richard possessed burned itself into his memory… Knowledge was scarce and therefore dear.

   Wonderful read on the source of Richard Feynman’s genius and how the precious scarcity of knowledge imbued one of humanity’s most beloved minds with “the pleasure of finding things out":