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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Difference’ by Scott E. Page

What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Difference’ by Scott E. Page
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Updated 20 January 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Difference’ by Scott E. Page

What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Difference’ by Scott E. Page

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. 

“The Difference” is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. 

Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity—not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities.


What We Are Reading Today: We the People by Jill Lepore

What We Are Reading Today: We the People by Jill Lepore
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What We Are Reading Today: We the People by Jill Lepore

What We Are Reading Today: We the People by Jill Lepore

In “We the People,” Harvard professor of history and law Jill Lepore offers a sweeping, lyrical, and democratic constitutional history, telling the stories of generations of Americans who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights.

Lepore argues that the framers never intended for the Constitution to be kept, like a butterfly, under glass, but instead expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, improving the machinery of government.


What We Are Reading Today: All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh

What We Are Reading Today: All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh
Updated 07 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh

What We Are Reading Today: All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh

In this startlingly original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh’s “All Consuming” traces how our culinary tastes have been transformed; how they’ve been pulled into supermarket aisles and seduced by Michelin stars, transfixed by Top Chefs and shaped by fads.

“All Consuming”  is a deep dive into the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and demographic forces that have reshaped our relationship with food.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Bodypedia’ by Adam Taor

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Bodypedia’ by Adam Taor
Updated 06 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Bodypedia’ by Adam Taor

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Bodypedia’ by Adam Taor

“Bodypedia” is a lively, fact-filled romp through your body, from A to Z. Featuring almost 100 stories on topics ranging from the beastly origins of goosebumps to the definitive answer to the Motown classic “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,” these fascinating tales from your entrails explore the wonders of anatomy, one body part at a time.

With a keen scalpel, Adam Taor peels away the layers to bring your under appreciated insides to light.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Strange Glow’ by Timothy J. Jorgensen

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Strange Glow’ by Timothy J. Jorgensen
Updated 05 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Strange Glow’ by Timothy J. Jorgensen

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Strange Glow’ by Timothy J. Jorgensen

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. 

But how much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? An accessible blend of narrative history and science, “Strange Glow” describes mankind’s extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation, including the hard-won lessons of how radiation helps and harms our health.


What We Are Reading Today: The Secrets of Silence by Shannon Malone Gonzalez

What We Are Reading Today: The Secrets of Silence by Shannon Malone Gonzalez
Updated 04 October 2025

What We Are Reading Today: The Secrets of Silence by Shannon Malone Gonzalez

What We Are Reading Today: The Secrets of Silence by Shannon Malone Gonzalez

In “The Secrets of Silence,” Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories.

Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, had never even been asked to, or had tried repeatedly to speak to those around them to no avail.

They all described the unspoken or whispered connections in the ways officers and communities socially control black women to put them “in their place.”