A New York Times Editors' Choice "Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world's first-ever work of socio-biographical-scientific pop history. . . .a freaky romp down a peculiar passage in the history of ideas, full of oddball cameos (Aldous Huxley Buckminster Fuller ) and some very sharp science writing."--The New York Times "Facebook, Yik Yak, Twitter, Twitch--each had a sunny,...