Litsy

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner

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

Kerrbearlib

willaful So sorry. It's such a grind. 3d

Bookwomble ❤️‍🩹🫂❤️‍🩹 3d

Kerrbearlib I am so sorry you‘re dealing with that with the insurance company. They are awful. 3d

dabbe I have no words for insurance companies. Except #ugh. Hang in there. 💙 3d

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Amiable

Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History | Olivia Campbell

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A 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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Super_Jane

Not in Love | Ali Hazelwood

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4.25/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘

“And then, Rue, I met you. And you casually cracked my life into before and after you.”

#romance #science #stem

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IriDas

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner

Half past seven on Daphne Major.

#firstlinefridays

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shanaqui

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

Enjoying this so far. In odd synchronicity, it made me more curious about the papers behind this article (which I need to look into) which suggests we're finding evidence there has never been a mass extinction: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-fiv...

This book, of course, is pretty certain that there was!

shanaqui But also says that science changes, some of the stuff in the book will be wrong, and that that's good.

I did like learning about ancient crocodilians in a footnote -- they were bipedal and stood upright! Article with an example image: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/20/revealed-the-terrifying-3m-long-... 1w

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IriDas

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner

Went to the beach with the kids today and I took the wrong book. 😭 😭 😭 I took one I‘d already read.

The weather is gloomy, but the cool feels nice to this middle-aged afab body. I moved away from the desert at exactly the right time. :)

How is the weather in your parts and what is your fave beach/park read?

#summerreading
#beachlife

Texreader Ah dang! What a bummer! Hot here (mid-90s) and so humid you could cut it with a knife and smear it on bread. So…unpleasant! 🥵 1w

kspenmoll Your beach looks beautiful. Where is it? 5d

IriDas @Texreader I feel for you. Lived for nearly 30 years in the SoCal rehydrated desert. I do not miss it or the heat. 4d

IriDas @kspenmoll It‘s on the central coast of California. 4d

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Abe

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 | Michio Kaku

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Great read about possible future technologies of the future!

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Brooke_H

On the Origin of Species (Revised) | Charles Darwin

My 16yo and I have agreed on a reading challenge: We will each read 20 pages a day of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. If we do that, we will complete the book before we leave on our trip to the Galápagos Islands in a few weeks. And this (somehow?) will enhance our trip. At page 206, am I having regrets? Perhaps.

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