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Contents updated 20 June 2024 (previously 6/3)
Contents
Now Reading
- w/CJS: Best Science & Nature Writing, 2022 [science]
[Next Up on ???: p 51-105] - w/RB: The Master Builder: … Science of the Cell…, Alfonso Arias [science]
[Next Up on 7/29: just a chat…] - EP#15: The Making of the American Essay* [Essays]
[Next Up on 8/1: Tom Wolf and ‘Sinatra’ essays] - LS: Land Above the Trees: … Alpine Tundra, Zwinger & Willard
[natural history] - BG: Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, Paul Scharre (Upcoming; no notes yet)
Science
General Science
- EP#14: 2023 Best Science & Nature Writing–Overview
- w/CJS: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
- w/CJS: Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind*, Brian Fagan
- w/RB: An Immense World, Ed Yong
- w/CJS: The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, David Quammen
- w/KC: Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson, 1980
- w/CJS: Alien Oceans: : The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, Kevin Peter Hand
- w/KC: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds…, Sheldrake
Geology books
- w/CJS: Assembling California*, John McPhee
- w/CJS: The Ends of the World, Peter Brannon
- w/CJS: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, Thomas Halliday- Introduction
- LS: A Wilder Time,* William E. Glassley
- LS: Finding the Forest, Peter Bundy
- LS: The High Sierra: A Love Story, Kim Stanley Robinson
- w/CJS: Islands of Abandonment, by Cal Flyn
- LS: Writing Landscape, Linda Cracknell
Oliver Sacks
- EP #`13: Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
- EP#12: The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks
- EP #11: Uncle Tungsten*, Oliver Sacks, 2001
- EP #10: The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks
- EP #9: On the Move, Oliver Sacks
- EP #8: Oaxaca Journal, Oliver Sacks
- EP #7: Everything in Its Place, Oliver Sacks
Essays
Anthologies
- EP#15: The Making of the American Essay*
- EP #5: Favorites from TGAofAE** 1945-1970
- EP #6: Favorites from the Contemporary American Essay
- EP #3: Favorites from Best American Essays of the 20thC
- EP #2: Favorites from Best Am. Essays of 2020
- EP #2: Best Am. Essays of 2020 – First look…
- EP #1: Ten Favorites from The Oxford Book of Essays**
Single-authored Collections
- LS: Writing Landscape, Linda Cracknell
- w/KC: Four Essays by E. B. White* [The Planet]
- EP #10: The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks
- w/KC: The Immense Journey, Loren Eisley
- BG: A Book of Essays by David Foster Wallace
- w/KC: Three Essays [Florida] by E. B. White
- EP #4: Five Essays by Chesterton
- Essays: G. K. Chesterton: family & sociability
Individual Essays
- Reflections on “Glaciology,” by Lia Purpura
- Thoughts on “Of Fragments and Segments” by Heidi Czerwiec
Other Books
History & Social Analysis books
- BG: The Power Law: Venture Capital and…, Sebastian Mallaby
- BG: The Dictionary People: The … who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, Sarah Olgilvie
- BG: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth Century Florence, Tim Parks
- BG: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Greaerber & Wengrow – A few notes
- BG: Mni Sota Macoce: Land of the Dakota, Gwen Westerman & Bruce White
- BG: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond –short note
Travel books
- LS: A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
- BG: To Shake the Sleeping Self, Jedidiah Jenkins
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)
Personal Notes
Geology notes
- Notes on the Geology of Southwest England
- Learning by Answering Questions (Reddit)
- ILSG 2023 Conference Notes
- Notes on Graphic Granite and Perthitic Textures
- Notes on the Geology of Baja
- What is this Rock, 3: Course Notes
Travel notes
- London (TBD)
- Keneewan Peninsula, 2024 — notes
- Amsterdam, October 2023 [personal diary]
- Iceland 2022, Day 0: Recovery Day in Reykjavik
- Iceland 2022, Travel Day: The Yellow Duffle
- Yosemite Trip, June 2022