Award-winning broadcaster,
Ziya Tong anchored
Daily Planet, Discovery Channel's flagship science program until its final season in 2018. Tong also
hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series
ZeD, PBS's national prime-time series,
Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA
scienceNOW alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson on PBS.
She is the author of
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World.
At the
Guardian, Tong tagged five of the best books to reveal your blind spots, including:
In the urban jungle, we are bound by different threads: unsleeping algorithms that trawl the internet finding “patterns that are 
invisible to human eyes”. In Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil lays bare the maths, rules and data that increasingly shape our everyday lives. “Models,” she writes, “are opinions that are embedded in mathematics.” She charts the unchecked growth of these models, and how they are coming to define school admissions, bank loans, mortgages and health insurance – even the ways our societies are policed. Learning how to read between the lines (of code) becomes crucial if we are to unlock their hidden biases.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS's national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson on PBS.
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