main topics I like: bugs, animals, farming, space
currently trying to finish: amulet seriess mountain of books on bugs / animals i have piled up
my library books keep getting overdue
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A journey back through the evolutionary history of our planet, from the origins and formation of the earth.--
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, …
have been reading it off and on for a while, the essays kinda travel around the internet
The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in the English countryside.
very good introduction for someone (me) who is kinda new to bird science
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
An overall really interesting book, I really like Temple Grandin's explanations and writing style. I'm thinking of reading her other books on animal thinking. Her explanations of what went wrong and right with two nuclear disasters and stories about engineering were really interesting to me, and the section on how humans and the rest of the animals are similar brain-wise is interesting too.
I agree with the other review that it does fall into the "billionare guys who are neurodiverse" trope which is annoying for so many different reasons I won't get into...also has Musk even engineered anything he owns? (Feel free to prove me wrong on this) This isn't probably the most sensitive book on neurodiversity and it is heavily American-centric, but her main point is that American education needs to value different types of thinking and hands-on learning more to improve its economy and infrastructure. (also that algebra …
An overall really interesting book, I really like Temple Grandin's explanations and writing style. I'm thinking of reading her other books on animal thinking. Her explanations of what went wrong and right with two nuclear disasters and stories about engineering were really interesting to me, and the section on how humans and the rest of the animals are similar brain-wise is interesting too.
I agree with the other review that it does fall into the "billionare guys who are neurodiverse" trope which is annoying for so many different reasons I won't get into...also has Musk even engineered anything he owns? (Feel free to prove me wrong on this) This isn't probably the most sensitive book on neurodiversity and it is heavily American-centric, but her main point is that American education needs to value different types of thinking and hands-on learning more to improve its economy and infrastructure. (also that algebra classes are an unnecessary barrier to graduation) But if you are interested in how ND people and visual thinkers are perceived in other countries, this isn't the best book for that.
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@fluxbugs Ah, I found a version that can be downloaded in the Internet Archive, the rest I need a library card and I live in the third world so they don't care about my libraries. I am also a bit confused since there are a lot of editions but it has like 1500 pages so I figure what I've found must be good.
It's one of the first video games developed Telltale, the ones behind The Walking Dead video games, The Wolf Among Us, and they also adapted some block busters into the graphic adventure genre. This is way more raw than the ones I mentioned since there's almost or more than a decade between Bone and some other titles, I haven't played it but saw a few videos and it seems interesting and good enough, they were a team who knew what they were doing (when Lucasarts goes bankruptcy …
@fluxbugs Ah, I found a version that can be downloaded in the Internet Archive, the rest I need a library card and I live in the third world so they don't care about my libraries. I am also a bit confused since there are a lot of editions but it has like 1500 pages so I figure what I've found must be good.
It's one of the first video games developed Telltale, the ones behind The Walking Dead video games, The Wolf Among Us, and they also adapted some block busters into the graphic adventure genre. This is way more raw than the ones I mentioned since there's almost or more than a decade between Bone and some other titles, I haven't played it but saw a few videos and it seems interesting and good enough, they were a team who knew what they were doing (when Lucasarts goes bankruptcy the developers who worked there separate and created Telltale on one side, and Double Fine on the other). Sadly since Telltale also went bankruptcy they don't sell it on Steam or any other platform any more so you must either pirate it or buy keys on G2A.
@suzyxwvu Nice, I'm glad you could find a version of it. I think if it has 1500 pages it's gotta be the whole series or something. Oh okay, I think I might grab it on G2A if I ever feel like playing it then. It does look kinda cool, I like how similar it is to the original comic style. (Boosted so I remember this)
You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed …
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drifting lazily thru the inky blackness of space.. the way space is described in this book is awesome I chuckled at the part where one of the golgafrinchan guys is yelling at ford and arthur how they want their tea. This is probably my favorite so far, there's just way too much I wish I could describe
After a family disaster Emily, Navin, and their mom move to a new house for …
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that is a building
