August Reading Excerpts; Science Snippets from "Give and Take" (Patreon)

EDIT: "Wait a minute, it's not August?!!?" you cry, Calendar clutched in your fists of indignant rage.

Well, yes you are correct - but I'm on the road in another time zone, and WIFI crapped out last night, which means I'm uploading this in your wee hours on the technically September side of things. If it's any consolation, I promise I was more stressed about this than you were.

This month we're making your High School teacher's dreams come true; rather than use wikipedia, we read a book, and then read some of academic articles they quoted! Truly, I am academia's darling. 

Really though, I quite enjoyed these studies, and I fancy you would too, if you could find them (say, attached somewhere... hint hint).