What We Are Reading Today: The Anthropocene Reviewed

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Updated 31 July 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: The Anthropocene Reviewed

Author: John Green

In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet, from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley’s comet to Penguins of Madagascar, on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the reviews have been praised as “observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy,” with over 10 million lifetime downloads. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

Updated 25 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

String algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to areas like genomics, where the genome of an organism can be encoded as a long string of letters.

This book provides an incisive introduction to the concepts and applications that every practitioner in the field needs to know.

It guides readers from the fundamentals of string processing to advanced computational methods.