Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Medicine, health and the body

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Books on disease, vaccines, drugs and clinical evidence, and on sleep, breathing, diet, exercise and the human body.

Books 28Experts 1Recommenders 23

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  1. Bad PharmaBen Goldacre, 2012
  2. The Hungry BrainStephan J. Guyenet, 2017
  3. The Transformed CellSteven A. Rosenberg, 1992
  4. The Hot ZoneRichard Preston, 1994
  5. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical BreakthroughsMorton A. Meyers, 2007
Bad PharmaBad Pharma
T2 Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre · 2012
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How drug companies distort medical evidence, starting with unpublished trials.

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

The Hungry BrainThe Hungry Brain
T3 The Hungry Brain
Stephan J. Guyenet · 2017
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The brain's appetite circuits, why people overeat and why diets fail.

The Transformed CellThe Transformed Cell
T4 The Transformed Cell
Steven A. Rosenberg · 1992
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Recommended by: Peter Attia

The Hot ZoneThe Hot Zone
T4 The Hot Zone
Richard Preston · 1994
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Investigations into Ebola and other African viruses, their strains and outbreaks.

Recommended by: Safi Bahcall, Sophie Bakalar

Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern MedicHappy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
T4 Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
Morton A. Meyers · 2007
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Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason

Bad ScienceBad Science
T4 Bad Science
Ben Goldacre · 2008
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Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Human Enhancement
T4 Human Enhancement
Julian Savulescu · 2008
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

SparkSpark
T4 Spark
John J. Ratey · 2008
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Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Body by Science: A Research Based Program toBody by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
T4 Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
John Little, Doug McGuff · 2009
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Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tim Ferriss

The Hair of the DogThe Hair of the Dog
T4 The Hair of the Dog
Karl Sabbagh · 2009
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How trivial-seeming questions lead to deeper insight into how science works.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates

100 Plus100 Plus
T4 100 Plus
Sonia Arrison · 2011
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Radical life extension and what longer lifespans do to markets

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Peter Thiel

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
T4 The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Nathan Wolfe · 2011
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Exploring Personal GenomicsExploring Personal Genomics
T4 Exploring Personal Genomics
Joel T. Dudley, Konrad J. Karczewski · 2013
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Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

Faster, Higher, StrongerFaster, Higher, Stronger
T4 Faster, Higher, Stronger
Mark McClusky · 2014
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Recommended by: Jeff Jordan

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and CThe Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
T4 The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
Nina Teicholz · 2014
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Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Secret Life of SleepThe Secret Life of Sleep
T4 The Secret Life of Sleep
Kat Duff · 2014
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Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

Body of Truth: How Science, History, and CulBody of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
T4 Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Harriet Brown · 2015
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Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Epic Measures
T4 Epic Measures
Jeremy N. Smith · 2015
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Recommended by: Bill Gates, Patrick Collison

I Contain MultitudesI Contain Multitudes
T4 I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong · 2016
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Recommended by: Bill Gates, Patrick Collison

Why We SleepWhy We Sleep
T4 Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker · 2017
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How lack of sleep damages nearly every system in the body, and what sleep does.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Alexis Ohanian and 6 others

Nine PintsNine Pints
T4 Nine Pints
Rose George · 2018
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The science, myths and business of blood, from bloodletting to plasma sales.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The BreakthroughThe Breakthrough
T4 The Breakthrough
Charles Graeber · 2018
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The scientists racing to make the immune system fight cancer: immunotherapy's story.

Recommended by: Keith Rabois, Vinod Khosla

An Elegant DefenseAn Elegant Defense
T4 An Elegant Defense
Matt Richtel · 2019
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Recommended by: Bill Gates, Keith Rabois, Vinod Khosla

Hacking DarwinHacking Darwin
T4 Hacking Darwin
Jamie Metzl · 2019
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Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Body: A Guide for OccupantsThe Body: A Guide for Occupants
T4 The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson · 2019
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A tour of the human body: how it works, how it heals itself and how it fails.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Morgan Housel

BreathBreath
T4 Breath
James Nestor · 2020
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Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Austen Allred

Breath from Salt
T4 Breath from Salt
Bijal P. Trivedi · 2020
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Recommended by: Bill Gates

A Shot to Save the WorldA Shot to Save the World
T4 A Shot to Save the World
Gregory Zuckerman · 2021
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Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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