- Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey: a book were not much happens, but a lot goes on below the surface
- Hum by Helen Phillips: looks at an AI controlled near future through a different lens
- Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: sex, lies, and video games
It's very plausible that anxiety causes heart disease, anxiety causes insomnia, and insomnia leads people to use melatonin. Same with diphenhydramine, overactive inflammatory response causes allergies, allergic people take allergy meds, and too much inflammation contributes to dementia.
Association studies too easily get interpreted as X causes Y. Maybe that's true, but not necessarily.
- Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small - Orbital by Samantha Harvey: a book were not much happens, but a lot goes on below the surface - Hum by Helen Phillips: looks at an AI controlled near future through a different lens - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: sex, lies, and video games