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Category Archives: Been readin’…
Book Challenge: Day 7
On my last book challenge day, I continue my cheating ways by again sharing two books. These are by the same author, American University history professor Ibram X. Kendi. They are Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist … Continue reading
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Book Challenge: Day 6
So many books, so few days! I’m not going to even get to a whole raft of significant ones! Arrrrgh! What’s a person to do? Cheat, of course. So today, I’m sharing two books on a theme: The Madhouse Effect: … Continue reading
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Book Challenge: Day 5
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky Robert Sapolsky is a primatologist and neurobiologist who has spent his career studying how biology, the brain, the environment, and genes interact to produce animal (and human) … Continue reading
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Book Challenge: Day 4
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood I had to include something by Margaret Atwood on my list since she’s such a wonderful novelist. Of course, her best-known novel is The Handmaid’s Tale, and that would have been a great addition to … Continue reading
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Book Challenge: Day 3.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist The author is a brain researcher who has spent his career understanding how the structure of the human brain influences how we … Continue reading
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Book Challenge, Day 2
Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. These days I don’t read as much fiction as I once did. Here’s an exception, Foucault’s Pendulum by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. He’s probably best known for his novel The Name of … Continue reading
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Book Challenge, Day 1
I’m accepting a challenge from my high school English teacher Barbara Bass to post a book a day. Day number 1: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. This book is a … Continue reading
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Pieces of the Puzzle #2: Cement
Today I was reading Climate Change: What Everyone Needs To Know by Joseph Romm. He mentioned that the manufacture of cement is a major source of CO2 emissions. I’m sure I had heard this before, but had never run across … Continue reading
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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #72
Cultivating anger is ultimately self-destructive. It’s also a choice, not a necessity. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s book, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, which I’ve recently read, provides a liberating framework for thinking about this topic. I’m sure I’m going to … Continue reading
Facebook, it appears we must redefine the nature of our association
In this wonderful scene from the movie Tombstone, Doc Holliday, played by Val Kilmer, learns that his tuberculosis is getting worse, and he decides to send his girlfriend away. But first, she denies that there’s a problem and feeds one … Continue reading