
New products. I picked up TJ‘s new body sunscreen gel. They have a new mineral sunscreen too.
New products. I picked up TJ‘s new body sunscreen gel. They have a new mineral sunscreen too.
Each chapter in this impressive, informative read follows a female scientist influenced by Marie Curie while also sharing her astounding story. Marie's love of science still influences young scientists today, and her dedication to learning is infectious.
This book is well written and the perfect mix of science and personal reflections.
I waited 14 years to read this not-difficult book. Sigh.
This tries to capture a transitional era in the sciences, ~1800, when science and the arts were closely linked and science was a wide-open field for adventure, but was also becoming formalized, and a far more stringent field. (The steampunk era? 🙂) But Holmes approach is pure biography (of people instead of ideas). I was entertained. This is an easy, wonderful listen.
I've seen this quote before, and I love it, but I love this framing of it even more!
Also, I think I need this quote on a t-shirt. For those non-great days.
24/100 I don't believe that I have ever listened to a less interesting book involving dinosaurs and paleontology, two subjects that I'm very interested in. IMO the book spends too much time discussing religious leaders, and how they tried to align fossils with the teachings of the bible. Even when discussing Darwin and evolution, it was more about the affect on the religious community than on the validity of the theories. 3 ⭐⭐⭐ #Read2025
My new audiobook, selected to carry me far away from the daily catastrophic news. Three hours there is a whole lot on 18th-century botanist Joseph Banks.
I love when the tone of science non-fiction surprises me. I think doing a tandem read with the print and audiobook helped in this case, because matching audio to speed of print reading gave the narrator a consistently clear, yet palpably upbeat tone, and it was wonderful to hear the audiobook narrator skillfully pronounce all the French words and names, along with a smattering of other European/Eastern European designations. 1/?
“scintillate in green“ Sounds like fun, fancy weekend plans. 💚❇️✨☺️
Scintillate:
1)emit flashes of light; sparkle.
2) Physics
fluoresce momentarily when struck by a photon or charged particle