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The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters
“ Somewhat interesting, but scattered. The author bounces around a lot. ”
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car, and Food On Your Plate
“I like the subjects of Rose George’s books. She writes about the background stuff that we don’t think about. This book is about the global shipping trade. She wrote another entire book about going to the bathroom . I think these subjects are interesting. But I don’t love how she writes about them….”
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.
“This was apparently a revolutionary book, back when it was published. It pushed back on the idea that industrial accidents were usually the fault of human error. It advaned the idea that in the world of connected systems, humans simply be expected to understand the ultimate ramifications of…”
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
“A ‘shipping lane’ or ‘sea lane’ is, in a generic sense, the common path ships take to get from Point A to Point B. Technically, a ship can take whatever path that the laws of nature allow, but clearly, if you’re cruising from Lisbon to Rio, there’s likely a pretty common route you take – the…”