Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science

A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger, divorced father, thinker, and yearner.

What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay Attention, a stream-of-consciousness account of a day in the life of his alter ego, Eamon Toole--a blogger, college professor, and divorced father.

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