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24 alternatives to The Half Life of Facts

In every discipline, facts change.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Half Life of Facts launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   On Books - Sam Arbesman on The Half-Life of Facts▲3

   On The Half-Life of Facts

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Naked Statistics▲66

   Stripping the dread from the data

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Too Big To Know▲70

   Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67

   Where the big ideas of the modern era came from

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The End of Average▲63

   How we succeed in a world that values sameness

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The Organized Mind▲65

   Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Truth or Truthiness▲64

   Learn to think like a data scientist

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9LA
   Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life▲268

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    How We Learn▲64

    The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Shape of Time▲62

    Remarks on the history of things

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Fooled By Randomness ▲105

    The hidden role of chance in life and markets

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    The Zero-Sum Society▲61

    Distribution and the possibilities for economic change

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    What "Disruption" Really Means▲152

    An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Naked Statistics▲69

    Build intuition around data

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Numbers Rule Your World▲61

    Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Nonsense▲59

    The power of not knowing

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    The Excellence Habit▲64

    How small changes in our mindset can make a big difference

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Wait▲74

    The art and science of delay

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Everything Is Obvious*▲73

    How common sense fails us

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The End of Jobs▲98

    Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Buyology▲100

    Truth and lies about why we buy

    2016 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Science is Culture ▲54

    Tearing down the wall between science and society.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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