pickI love Mary Roach, and this book is no exception. Ostensibly about space, it‘s really about human physiology and how it is impacted by being in zero gravity, all packaged with her signature wit. I loved it!
pick“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins, discusses and explains the selfishness of genes in their goals of survival and repopulation. At the start of the book, Richard Dawkins brings up the theory of the primordial soup — the origin of life, where life forms were first able to rise by feeding on the organic material within the primordial soup. Despite being simple microscopic creatures, competition between them was still very imminent.
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An excellent idea & the concept. The diagrams/drawings are fantastic - even a few pages that unfold for a much larger images.
I so very much wanted to enjoy this - even borrowed from hubby‘s shelves. The explanations are so oversimplified that it makes reading difficult, imo. I really disliked & fail to understand the name changes (i.e. bathroom to water room🤦🏻♀️)
🎄: 5
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pickThe book “The Selfish Gene”, created by Richard Dawkins, is an award winning book about the understanding of natural selection and evolution. Richard Dawkins explains and describes how genes could be both selfish and altruistic, while providing basic context behind the information to better help the reader understand. The book is packed with knowledge about evolution and natural selection, even going as far as explaining life from the start.
Happy Saturday ? Thank you for all the birthday wishes last week! I turned 29 and celebrated with a trip to the bookstore and one too many espresso martinis. ?Our house is cleared out from all the festivities and Thanksgiving guests, and I can say we successfully hosted for the first time! Now I'm ready to cozy up with an interesting new book while all the dishes still "soak". ?
Heard this classic on the radio today. The evergreen tree was once a family Christmas tree, planted in my backyard 70+ years ago.The rose tree I take note of when I walk my neighborhood- it is still blooming. Thought we could all use a little reminder, “It‘s a wonderful world.”
https://youtu.be/CaCSuzR4DwM
Discover the hilariously informative world of 'What If?' by Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist who answers absurd questions with real answers.
Lindsay recommends on Book Interrupted‘s Blog.
https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-what-if
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pickI rarely read nonfiction these days, but this was the perfect book to get me back into it - a popular history of everything, from the beginnings of the universe through Earth's formation and the appearance of life right up until the present day, told through a series of mind-boggling facts and statistics that had me following my poor family around saying, "Did you know...?" incessantly for the past two weeks. ?
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No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
