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The view from my back porch last night:

sunset and moonrise
view from the back porch — in awe
of nature‘s glory. 🌙

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #nature

This was such an informative and lovely book. Tyson uses science to bring perspective to the most divisive topics of our civilization, such as religion, race, gender, war. Such a broad perspective brings a new outlook on priorities when we look at the universe as a whole. My only complaint is that those who most need to hear it won't ever pick up this book
Thanks for putting this one on my radar @xicanti
#ALSpine2025 @monalyisha

Trying a new audiobook, currently free on audible.

? "Bookstack With Sleeping Cat"?‍⬛

#Deshelving these as part of a gradual attempt to fit all my books into designated space!

Numberland is my son's which he no longer wants.
Breathe I accidentally ordered 2 copies of, so keeping 1, donating the other.
The books on the English I never got round to reading, & doubt I ever will (well, I definitely won't now!)
Parallel Worlds & The Later Bourgeoise World are both good, but I won't re-read.

I‘m not going to Mars. Just New Jersey! Final tally of reading material that I‘m taking with me:
-7 magazines
-6 books from my shelves
-3 library books
-2 Libby books
-1 book borrowed from my brother-in-law
-1 audiobook for the drive

No, I‘m not going to run the vacuum cleaner or do laundry before I go.

The book i wanted to borrow wasn't available, but this was! I love physics so decided to give it a whirl

Mary Roach has a new book coming out which reminded me I read Gulp (my first and only by her so far) earlier this year but neglected to review it. Roach‘s science writing is just as entertaining as everyone says! This one is about the digestive tract with tons of interesting asides. I‘ll definitely be watching for her next which I‘ll tag below, plus her backlist.

I don't usually pick up books about the environment, but this was a fascinating look at our changing oceans.

A thanks to the Women's Prize for NF as I wouldn't have picked it up otherwise!

...efforts are already underway to clean up the plastic debris floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organisation, was founded in 2013 by a then-teenage entrepreneur, Boylan Slat, from the Netherlands. Outraged by disastrous plastic pollution... began sending out ships towing U-shaped barriers to skim floating plastic from the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
https://theoceancleanup.com/

Elsewhere, coral species are gathered up, and their cells, sperm, and eggs are frozen. It's a similar scheme to seed banks, which aim to preserve all the world's plants, so people in the future can use them to breed the crops they need or replant species that are lost from the wild. Coral DNA is also being sequenced and archived to preserve the genetic codes that would be lost forever if those species went extinct.