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The Reality of Space Travel

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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The lovely faintingviolet thrust this upon me a few days ago, and since I still hadn’t found something for my Science square, this little book was perfect. Faintingviolet’s a huge fan of Becky Chambers, and really enjoyed her first book, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. As I’m not so much in the sci-fi end of the speculative world, I’d never come across Chambers’ work before, but I was pleasantly surprised at how wonderful this novella was. Chambers builds an entire world in a short amount of time and it never feels rushed or unfinished. Our crew of astronauts […]

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9/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

Why is it cheap to feed polar bears? (Because they live on ice only.)

Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival by Lindsay Moore

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Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival is a lovely illustrated picture book. It is also an easily accessible story for almost any age. Lindsay Moore has a quaint story about a bear and the day to day activities it must do to survive. And while the life of a polar pear is not easy, she shows the world, so it is not too dark. It does mention that the bear eats the seals and such but does not show you this in any graphic detail. The illustrations are the colors of the arctic. Blues and whites mostly cover the page […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:372 |

Showing how #2 can be #1 in helping the natural world

Steve the Dung Beetle by Susan R. Stoltz

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I am on a roll with finding funny and education poop books. Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll could have been dull. But Susan R. Stolz’s text makes this a story about what the dung beetle does in a not “laugh out loud manner” (that comes with the jokes at the end) but in a fun and educational manner. Steve the Dung Beetle is for the slightly older crowd (age 5 and up) who like science and finds poo interesting. The facts about Dung Beetles do not stink, but are a refreshing, honest look at how the dung beetle […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:364 |

Here’s the scoop

Whose Poop Is That? by Darrin Lunde

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Whose Poop Is That? (yes, that says poop) is not a crappy book. It is refreshing. Darrin Lunde created a good, solid introduction for the young child about animal waste. It tells you about what animals eat. And at the end, the afterwards also gives facts about animals not talked about and their poop. This book is not gross, but straight forward and scientific. The illustrations are drawings, so you are not even getting to see the “real deal,” just a representation of the results. Kelsey Oseid’s illustrations are simply fun. Some of the facts you might not be aware […]

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9/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:356 |

Doctor Strange Explains Why Time Travel is Possible

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

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Ever since I’ve started traveling more for my new job, I’ve gotten back into audiobooks. (I liked them in college because of the long drives to and from school.) Long audiobooks stress me out because of library due dates, so this short four-discer read by a celebrity was perfect for a quick round trip through North Texas. In The Order of Time, theoretical physicist/brainiac Carlo Rovelli poetically and accessibily skims the surface of our understanding(s) of time. He includes a wide but shallow overview of theories and understandings throughout time, as well as some information about quantum fields that helps explain […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Monkey See Monkey Tell Time

Monkey Time, by Michael Hall

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If you can get over the Minutes basically bullying the monkey in Michael Hall’s Monkey Time, the learning about telling time (with the use of a lot of minutes) and the science facts at the end, are fun. And that is the story. We learn about how one Dot is a Minute; 10 make up ten minutes and so on. But the dots tease monkey to the point when (spoiler) he catches the last minute he wants to eat it. Okay; I did and did not see that coming. I knew a joke of some kind was coming, as I […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:326 |

We All Deserve to Be Happy

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sophie Hagen

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I found the incredibly funny Sophie Hagen through her podcasts, Made of Human and Secret Dinosaur Cult. She is a lovely Danish standup comedian that now lives in London and she is very, very funny. She is also fat, and has been for most of her life. As most of us who are on the heavier side probably know, this means she has had certain experiences in life that are less than ideal. She decided it was time to really look into the ideas that Western society’s fat phobia is based on and first, find out if the ideas are […]

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8/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Surgery Before Anesthesia and Antiseptics

The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

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Bingo 17 (Science!) The Butchering Art is part biography and part history of medicine, but mostly medicine. Do not read this is you are squeamish about some fairly graphic descriptions of surgery before things like antiseptics and anesthesia. The focus of the book is one the career of a Quaker named Joseph Lister in Victorian England; if his last name sounds vaguely familiar it should, and I’m surprised it doesn’t get more attention or pointed out sooner than it actually does. I’m also slightly ashamed of how long it took me to start wondering about that. In addition to following […]

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8/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |


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