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"FiveBooks Interview" is a feature on The Browser website in which writers are asked to suggest five books on a single topic. So far, 82 writers have given their thoughts in the "science and technology" category. Included are: Stephen Baker on Jeopardy's Watson; Walter Isaacson on Einstein; Deborah Blum on Science in Society; and Carl Zimmer on The Strangeness of Life.