Cannonball Read 18

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“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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When I was looking at the 2022 Read Harder Challenge for the first time and saw #9: “Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest”, I knew without looking what that book would be, even though I haven’t looked at the beginning of my list in years. And that’s because I’ve been avoiding this book for as long as I’ve wanted to read it. Just one word for you: supervolcano. In Bryson’s signature breezy, humorous, yet intelligent style, he will explain to you […]

Rocks matter, too!

I’m Trying to Love Rocks by Bethany Barton

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I was that kid who liked looking at rocks. Not geodes (though I had a few) or anything special, I just liked rocks. I figure it was the shapes, and colors (though I’m sure my family would say they matched the ones in my head). I have always been a visual person. When older I liked crystals (hey! It was the 90’s… for those who were there, you get it), but never got into the science of rocks. Not until I was much older was […]

Would you lease your house to this species?

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There are a lot of things going wrong in the world, but it is difficult to downplay the ecological crises we are currently witnessing.  Repeated studies have been published describing a loss of biodiversity happening at a rate never seen before.  Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History describes the extinctions that are occurring around us in the context of five major extinctions in Earth’s history. Unlike so many books about environmental crises, Kolbert stays even-keeled, with a journalist’s approach to describing what, why, […]



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