A reading list for uncertain times A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You , Sean B. Carroll , Princeton University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment , Lucas Chancel, Malcolm DeBevoise, translator , Belknap Press, 2020. 184 pp. Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education , Justin Reich , Harvard University Press, 2020. 336 pp. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in Chi

From an incisive ethnography of predictive policing to a compelling indictment of technology-enabled learning tools, the books on this year's fall reading list offer valuable context to the myriad challenges currently facing humanity. Dive deep into a public health disaster shrouded in secrecy, sit with the uncomfortable questions raised by a fictional foray into the future of intimacy, confront the challenges to sustainable development posed by environmental racism, and learn what a QR-coded chicken in rural China portends about the future of agriculture. When you are through, sit back and marvel at the odds stacked against humanity from the start with an entertaining romp through evolution and then leave your earthly worries behind with an ambitious tour of the Solar System.