Best Book of 2020 by Lifehacker

And in parallel, the book provides answers to a variety of questions. For example, what happened before - a chicken or an egg, and what happens if an elephant is given LSD? Why can't you think of two things at the same time and how to make it work? How is it that the lungs appeared thanks to lichens, and who is to blame for human suffering?

This is not a complicated textbook - the book is written with humor and full of pop culture references. It is intended for everyone who is interested in the world around them and loves to look for answers to questions.

In 2020, other books were released that deserve mention.

"What are the women called" by Irina Fufaeva. Previously, only linguists used this term, but now half of the Internet argues about feminitives - often citing completely unscientific arguments. Therefore, the author-linguist decided to understand the topic really seriously. And she did it well.
"Darwinism in the XXI century" by Boris Zhukov. The book describes the history of evolutionary doctrine and analyzes the arguments of its opponents. The author talks about the weak and strong points of the theory of evolution, its relationship with other sciences and provides his statements with numerous descriptions of scientific experiments and paleontological findings.
"Close-up of the Middle Ages" - in this book, the historian Oleg Voskoboinikov tells how in the Middle Ages people built a hierarchy of power, loved, fought and where they got inspiration from. And also - why some events turned out to be the prerequisites for change, while others did not affect the course of history.
"People on the Moon" by Vitaly Egorov. To many people, a man's flight to the moon still seems implausible and raises many questions. You will find the answers to them in this book. And you will also find out if there was a toilet on a spaceship, how wet wipes and space radiation are related, why people do not fly to the moon these days, and what evidence is there that we were there.
“Counterclockwise” by Polina Loseva. There is hardly a person who would not like to remain young. Therefore, scientists have been working on this problem for hundreds of years. So why are we aging and why hasn't a cure for it been invented yet? What is the science of gerontology doing now and what can become our protection against old age? In the book you will find answers to these and other questions.