Pam Phillips wants to read Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead
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Taking my next step into the Fediverse from Mastodon. I've written some weird little SF stories and poems, but I don't read much fiction any more. Now I'm mostly interested in science and history, especially non-human intelligence.
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22% complete! Pam Phillips has read 8 of 36 books.
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Pam Phillips wants to read In Defense of Plants by Matt Candeias
A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has …
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Pam Phillips started reading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The …
Pam Phillips wants to read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The …
Pam Phillips finished reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
Pam Phillips started reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …
Actually a re-read. Looking forward to meeting ART again.
Pam Phillips finished reading The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …
Pam Phillips wants to read Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects by Robell Awake
Pam Phillips wants to read League of Kitchens Cookbook by Lisa Gross
Pam Phillips started reading The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …
Pam Phillips finished reading A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik …
Stayed up to 1am to finish it.
Pam Phillips wants to read The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …
Pam Phillips wants to read Hotel Lux by Maurice Casey
Interview on BBC History Extra: www.historyextra.com/period/hotel-lux-podcast-maurice-j-casey/
Seems like a good counterpoint to A Gentleman in Moscow
Pam Phillips reviewed What the Bees See by Craig P. Burrows
Beautiful photos of flowers, text about honeybees and manuka
3 stars
The photos are captured with an unusual technique, but they don't show the UV marks on flowers. You don't see any of the rays and rings known to help bees find the pollen. The text carefully explains that they capture the fluorescence in visible light caused by ultraviolet light. What this mainly shows is that pollen fluoresces. What really bugged me is that none of the photos are captioned! You have to turn to a list in the back notes to find out what they are. Once the text has explained what the photos are, it delves into how insects see. Then it gives an overview about honeybees. Having reached roughly the halfway point, it seems to run out of things to say about bees and spends most of the remainder talking about manuka honey. So much is written and repeated about manuka, you begin to wonder if the book …
The photos are captured with an unusual technique, but they don't show the UV marks on flowers. You don't see any of the rays and rings known to help bees find the pollen. The text carefully explains that they capture the fluorescence in visible light caused by ultraviolet light. What this mainly shows is that pollen fluoresces. What really bugged me is that none of the photos are captioned! You have to turn to a list in the back notes to find out what they are. Once the text has explained what the photos are, it delves into how insects see. Then it gives an overview about honeybees. Having reached roughly the halfway point, it seems to run out of things to say about bees and spends most of the remainder talking about manuka honey. So much is written and repeated about manuka, you begin to wonder if the book was subsidized by the Manuka Board.
Great photos, though.
Pam Phillips wants to read King : a Life by Jonathan Eig
King : a Life by Jonathan Eig
A biography of Martin Luther King Jr.