050 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Why was language created? Why are so many millennials obsessed with a giant history book? And what the heck even IS money? J & V contemplate these questions and more during their discussion of international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari with special guest Varun Bhoopalam.

Mentioned in the episode:

• The Liturgists podcast

• You Made It Weird podcast

• Homo Deus by Harari

• Sapiens: A Graphic History by Harari

• Science Mike episode on Book Club

• This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah E. Hill, PhD

• Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

What to read next:

• Watching the English by Kate Fox

• The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong

• “How Storytellers Use Math” on LitHub

• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

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