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Oh oh oh! This chapter is cool! It's about the body and mind. It thus talks about anything from abortion to medication of all kind. As a European, I'm amazed with the bipolar situation in America.

It's also about medical equipment (MRIs for example), atomical compositions (like gut bacteria) and other fascinating facts.

And yes, space exploration made many discoveries possible so we shouldn't defund it. :)

After gender, we move on to race and colour.
NdGT nicely pointed out how weird it is that the police (at least in the US) differentiates only between 3 "colours" (5 if one uses the, frankly, stupid and not just racist "red" and "yellow").
Think about it: paint, make-up and hair dye go nuts over shades I can't even perceive but we don't use the same diligence when describing someone outside those industries?

NdGT likening genders to hurricane categories. Muhahahahahahahaha! OK, the scientific fact about the reindeers was funny as well. *chuckles*

Quite a short chapter ... I wonder if he didn't dare dive into it further or if he simply didn't have more to say on the topic.

Chapters 5 and 6 talked about probability and statistics (harmless enough) as well as what we eat (yep, the conflict between meat-eaters and those yelling at us for being horrible human beings).

Not sure his nice ways of addressing those that screech like banshees will work but good luck to him - and to us all.

Ah yes, Werner von Braun, tragic architect behind the moon rockets of the Apollo missions, famously commenting on the success of the V12 ballistic missile, which he had pioneered for Nazi Germany:
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
(It was launched primarily against London and Antwerp.)

Then come the tropes about Dems and Rs, Fox and other things ... interesting reversals.

A fan once asked 20th-century sci-fi novelist Ray Bradbury why he imagined bleak futures. Is civilization doomed? He replied, „No. I write about these futures so that you know to avoid them.�

Damn! The book keeps hitting hard.

If the rest is this good, I‘ll either quote it to death or refrain from saying much more so you‘ll still read it for yourselves! *lol*

Knowledge grows exponentially, not linearly.

We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

- T.S. Eliot

This poem, in the 2nd chapter, emphasizes the importance of exploration, of leaving that cave and learning about the universe.

I disagree about the feeling of living in „special times� though. *

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth‘s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

- Joyce Kilmer