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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton, John Anthony West

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great on dogon + string (and torque) theories, but it gets too rushed on the decline of serpent religions.
Jim and the Flims by Rudy Rucker

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as always rucker explain an entire ecology, now of dead people. i love the weird powers.
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold J. Morowitz

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Did not finish book.
dude has THE GALL to comment how much he doesn't know non-western cultures AND that western culture is the most scientific, overall. On same paragraph.

he piles up EP on top of EP to find himself on top of it, dismissing all branches that diverge from it.

Entire rant here: https://twitter.com/nonlinear/status/1170520160878374913?s=12