Matt Ridley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matt Ridley

Freezing Order by @billbrowder is a fascinating and frightening book. Also a useful road map for navigating the obstacles we face in trying to take on an even bigger totalitarian regime in Viral. https://t.co/tSyv1tQ61E

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It was not till I read Sean McMeekin's excellent book Stalin's War that I realised that Russia invaded almost as many countries as Germany in 1938-40: Japan, Finland, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

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Truly extraordinary of the @BBCNews. They might try reading Barbara Demick's fine book about the last major N Korean famine "Nothing to Envy". https://t.co/rMEzCK9NpD

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The great Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94. Pioneer at the heart of the silicon revolution. In my book How Innovation Works I described how he was an unusual innovator in being easy-going, quiet and non-migratory: https://t.co/okCWJpbUWV

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I have just finished reading a very, very good book. Gasp-inducingly surprising again and again. Funny. Lyrical. Grand. Ingenious. Mysterious. Sad. Gripping. It's about an aunt. It's true...in the end. It's called Kiss Myself Goodbye, by Ferdinand Mount.

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"The case for and against is put very succinctly in Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley. But you would have to be very close-minded not to entertain the possibility that [it began with a lab accident]." https://t.co/MWsCZsyXXW

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." Charles Darwin, in the Descent of Man.

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RT @RupertDarwall: Alina Chan & Matt Ridley's Viral makes for compelling reading as an evidence-led account of the most important subject o…

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