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This book was just read to me on utube. It was so annoying 🙄. But hey, maybe it was good to get the kids' attention, lol. #ISpyBingoAugust @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

Road trip! (Maybe I should have waited til I could photosnap a bridge… ) #Wichita2DightonKS

Yes!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

I do love John McPhee, but I was never able to get into this. I tried four different times, over 16 months. I did finish. The topics are good. The Mississippi River would naturally have changed channels on 1973. A town in Iceland tries to save itself from a series of lava flows. And in LA one of the best places to live are the San Gabriel Mountains, where landslides and debris flows are coming everywhere, sooner or later.

Wow! Excellent and thorough. The super technical chapters about how the solid rocket boosters worked were a tougher slog for me than the chapters in which Vaughan laid out the theory of the normalization of deviance, but this was well worth reading overall. I borrowed my copy but need one of my own for a re-read!

1. This is the vacation I‘d like to take. Train from DC to LA, hang out a few days in Southern California, cruise to and through the Panama Canal, arrive Baltimore about a month after leaving.
2. As @TheSpineView said, I would definitely take my Kindle. I‘d probably spend a lot of time on the observation deck as well. #two4tuesday

Great collection of ancient inventions! I gave my copy to my brother in law.

Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday

The path to a calculator takes us from counting rods to abacuses to slide rules and through mechanical and electrical adding machines to get to the glory days of the late 20th century and the ubiquitous TI-81. Houston rides us into the sunset as well, detailing the calculators replacement by - and assimilation into - the computer and mobile device. A great read all the way through, and I will be looking for his works on Punctuation and The Book.

This is a book geared towards kids, but it‘s interesting reading for adults too! I certainly learned a lot about Indigenous peoples and how much they have contributed to the world through their inventions and creative thinking.

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#pop24 - nonfiction book about Indigenous people