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Adrian Nathan West, Benjamín Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World (Paperback, 2021, New York Review Books) 4 stars

A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius …

When sensemaking breaks down

4 stars

Fast-paced, fun and terrifying stories about ideas, people and complex systems at the edge of understanding, half fact, half fantasy. Stories of the breakdown of sensemaking, the ensuing madness, and about a darkness at the heart of things.