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Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. As someone

who writes books, I can't help but occasionally peek at what other books are selling really well.

My books sell pretty well, but you know, you could always aim higher, right? So you peek at the

bestseller lists, you walk into the airport bookstores

and look around for what categories are flying off the shelves. In the nonfiction sections,

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