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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder. It arises because of that eye.
— An Immense World by Ed Yong
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
If human beings, through most of our history, have moved back and forth fluidly between different social arrangements, assembling and dismantling hierarchies on a regular basis, maybe the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode? How did we lose that political self-consciousness, once so typical of our species? How did we come to treat eminence and subservience not as temporary expedients, or even the pomp and circumstance of some kind of grand seasonal theatre, but as inescapable elements of the human condition?
I have always loved Winton's writing style and this one didn't disappoint. Reading this during the Perth summer, on my first trip back since the pandemic, I can totally feel his descriptions of heat, aridity, vastness of the land and my own passivity.
Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his …
Well written and engaging enough but missing that "something" that makes a brilliant crime novel.
Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his …
Opened my eyes to current research and possibilities.
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence …
Different. Kept me engaged and made me cry.
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a book by Swedish-American …
I work in AI so there was not much in this book that I didn't already know about or condiser previously.
"After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece's …
The 4th random book I decided to read during my holidays was a diffucult read but thoroughy brilliant. The 8 years I spent in Germany probably prepared me to believe his words despite them still being disturbing.