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Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon

A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont's Race Around the Eiffel Tower by Rob Polivka

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#cbr11bingo #TrueStory A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont’s Race Around the Eiffel Tower is one of those powerful books that gives you a piece of history you might not be familiar with. Though not an all-encompassing/text-book look, it is a complete and general look at the history of flight in its early years. And it also gives you the story of one person who did much to get it to what we know as aviation today. Years before the Wright Brothers, a young Brazilian man-made history by trying, failing, trying again, failing, until he finally got it right and was able […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:307 |

To Build or Not to…. Nah! Just to Build!

In Made by Maxine by Ruth Spiro

Builder Brothers: Big Plans by Jonathan and Drew Scott

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In reverse alphabetical order, this review covers two different books about building, about trying and not giving up. In Made by Maxine by Ruth Spiro, we see our heroine trying to figure out how to make things bigger and better. When she gets a pet fish (who she thinks is waving at her), she builds it the biggest, funniest, craziest fish tank as the bowl she had for him was just too dull. And how proud both are of it! That is until the class pet parade is coming up and the tank is too big to move. And like […]

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6/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:246 |

My first DNF in years

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World by Rachel Swaby

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From Goodreads: Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among […]

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6/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Lets get twisted with Ada Twist

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants by Andrea Beaty

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Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants is a continuing of the picture book series Andrea Beaty and David Roberts started with Iggy Peck, Architect, and Rosie Revere, Engineer and of course, Ada Twist, Scientist. And this chapter book is book two in The Questioneers series for the strong second to third grade reader. There are a few bumps for adult readers, but the age it is aimed at should love. Especially if they are into science, asking questions and funny friendship stories. Like her picture book, Ada is curious and always asking questions and doing experiments. And sometimes, because she […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:177 |

Look up….all the way up….. and the stars will tell you a story about a curious boy

Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jenifer Berne

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I am not a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson mostly because I am unfamiliar with his work (and I have heard rumors about a less-than-friendly personality). However, putting aside any bias I might have, I tackled Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars as if it was any other book. After all, Jenifer Berne’s book did not interest me because of the subject, but because of Lorraine Nam’s illustrations. Paper artist Lorraine Nam’s cover is fascinating. The bold color of the yellow grabs the eye and pulls you into the blue below. And inside things […]

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3/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:94 |

What IS the internet, anyway?

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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AMC’s computer tech/hot people drama “Halt and Catch Fire” is set in the 1980s and 1990s. It’s a great drama, and also set in the fascinating and generally not seen subgenre of period-piece computer tech. The soundtracks alone make the show worth watching. I love that show, and its iconic line: “Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets you to the thing.” I’ve been online for about 25 years, and the gutsin that quote resonated deeply with me. As an artsy, quiet kid, what I loved the most about messing around with tech was the sense of possibility. […]

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4/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Patent Wars

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

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I really wanted to like this book, and there were definitely some great moments in it with visceral setting and interesting factoids, but it all fell a bit flat for me. “The Last Days of Night” is a fictional retelling of the patent wars between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse during the hey-day of America’s invention period. Moore chooses to tell this story from the Point of View of Westinghouse’s lawyer, Paul Cravath. It’s an ingenious way to tell a story riddled with scientific specifics and exceptionally technical ideas, and Moore does this well. Paul is fresh out of law school […]

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3/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

The Room Where It Happens

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

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Best for: Men who don’t seem to get how hard it is for women and people of color at the highest levels of their field; women who need a little inspiration and some bad ass women to look up to. In a nutshell: Woman of color venture capitalist is sabotaged by the old boys club in infuriating ways, fights back all the way to court, loses, but still comes out WAY ahead of those assholes. Line that sticks with me: “I was appalled by their refusal to admit, despite their near-total homogeneity, that they had any problems with diversity.” Why […]

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11/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:86 |


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