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24 alternatives to Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

The astounding interconnectedness of the universe

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Dark Matter▲73

   What if you could have made different choices in life?

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Beaks & Geeks: DARK MATTER author Blake Crouch▲55

   Candid Conversations With Authors

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Stephen Hawking's Pocket Universe▲91

   Bringing ‘A Brief History of Time’ to a whole new generation

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Matter▲185

   A new magazine built on Medium

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   PixelSpace▲68

   A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable▲87

   The extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Light▲58

   A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9AH
   A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications▲275

   2018 · upvote.pub · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Vital Question▲55

    Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life

    2017 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Gutshot: Stories▲128

    Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    What is Fire?▲134

    An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Origin of (Almost) Everything▲64

    From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Cosmosapiens▲63

    Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    The Universe of Us▲61

    Planets, stars, constellations, and mesmerizing poetry.

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Darwin’s On the Origin of Species▲61

    A Picture Book Adaptation

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Freakonomics▲97

    A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Mini Mammoth▲87

    Powerful research companion from Mammoth

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Homo Deus▲105

    A Brief History of Tomorrow

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control▲67

    Book on the hypergrowth of the past 5 decades

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    What If?▲107

    Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Engines of Creation▲54

    The coming era of nanotechnology

    2016 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Dark Territory▲69

    The Secret History of Cyber War

    2016 · its alternatives →

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