Honorable mention to "When the Saints Go Marching In" by Anthony Bidulka
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Honorable mention to "When the Saints Go Marching In" by Anthony Bidulka
pickArguments from evolutionary biology and quantum physics that we do not perceive reality anything like as it is.
I managed to keep my head above water till we got to the use of game theory and statistics to show that evolution drives us towards useful perceptions rather than accurate ones and in fact eliminates accurate perception. At that point, I just had to take the author's word for it. ⬇
pickClearly for whatever reason I'm in the mood to read a lot this weekend! Finally finished this up; it's very dense, despite looking quite a slim book. Not a lot that was new to me, as someone who reads popular science about dinosaurs whenever I see something new, and follows dinosaur news idly, but some interesting titbits.
Every day is
a rainy day without you
here right next to me.
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In February of 1962, Joseph Bogen and Philip Vogel sliced in half the brain of Bill Jenkins—intentionally, methodically, and with careful premeditation.
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#FirstLineFridays
Today I learned that birds and reptiles can isolate infections in a single part of the body instead of the spread that often happens in mammals. I want to go read about how that works now, but I guess my theory would be a different lymphatic system? Though no clue how they would avoid spread through the blood stream... If someone finds out before I do, let me know!
(Note that I studied immunology as part of my degree, am interested in *detail*.)
All over the place. Medical insurance headaches that are already negatively impacting my kids. Over an hour trying to figure out that my daughter can‘t go to her scheduled appointment with the specialist tomorrow. I have been fighting insurance companies since my oldest was born over 28 years ago. I‘m so tired.
On the good side, my youngest son enjoyed the summer reading kickoff and I won for best speaker at Toastmasters.
#mentalhealthmonday
pickA soft pick. Provides a background on the lives of four female scientists (2 Jewish, 2 not) and how they managed to get out of Nazi Germany. Also gives good info on the various immigration processes that people tried to use to escape. However, it‘s rather repetitive and I really don‘t like it when authors interject their personal opinions or make subjective snarky comments in a work of nonfiction like this.
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