beginning archive and to read lists (updated)
Reading now 2016:
Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe Relationship
Cooperation Among Animals (with Human Implications)
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest
The Outermost House
Sag Harbor: An American Beauty
Reality is Broken
Eco-Mind
rereading: The Medusa and the Snail
Recently read:
2015:
Smarter Than You Think
Guardian of All Things
What a Plant Knows
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Eating Animals
The Naked Future
Secret Chambers: The inside story of cells and complex life by Martin Brasier
Missing Microbes:How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Dr. Martin J Blaser
An Epidemid of Absence:A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Lynn Margulis: A Scientific Rebel
2014:
A Sand County Almanac
Honor Thy Symbionts
Empire of the Beetle
Survival of the Sickest
The One-Straw Revolution
Rambunctious Garden
Thrivability
Women of Courage: Stories from Afghanistan
2013:
Cotton: A Revolutionary Fiber
Chimeras and Consciousness
Weeds: Nature's most unloved plants
Riddled With Life
Everyday Dress 1650-1900 (library)
A History of Fashion and Costume (library)
Textiles: The Whole Story (library)
A Natural History of Termites (library)
Chemical Communication
Musicophilia- Oliver Sacks
My Stroke of Insight- neurologist
To Read:Evolution by James Alan Shapiro
An Uncommon Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chaskey
Silent Spring
The Empathetic Civilization
When I Was Puerto Rican (again)
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein follows Joshua Foer's compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly unique—from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Brains remember visual imagery but have a harder time with other information, like lists, and so with the help of experts, Foer learned how to transform the kinds of memories he forgot into the kind his brain remembered naturally. The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer's story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone. )
The Great Frustration by Seth FriedThe 11 stories in Fried's debut have the vigor of adventures, taking place in settings as disparate as Spain in the time of the conquistadors, a king's harem, a city under siege, various scientific setups, and--in the case of the title story--the Garden of Eden. Such an imagination is refreshing, but even more rewarding is that the stories don't rely solely on concept or conceit, and trudge forward into the lovely mess of strong characters wedged into dramatic circumstance. The scientists in "Those of Us in Plaid" have a simple, though not easy, objective involving an obstinate monkey and a space capsule. Science is clearly one of Fried's major interests: "Loeka Discovered" follows a team of researchers reconstructing ancient history from bits of bone and other artifacts. The lengthy "Animalcula: A Young Scientist's Guide to New Creatures" offers 15 scholarly descriptions of minuscule fauna, creating a fictional microcosm and illuminating it with the surprisingly poetic inner life of the scientist studying his subjects. While Fried's stories run to the historical or technical, there's a strain of absurdism in his prose that combines pathos, unease, and dark humor to add depth and give these stories a sense of modernity and relevance.
unfinished?SuperCooperators by Martin A. Nowak
Garbageland
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
2012:
The Wildlife of Our Bodies:Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today- Rob Dunn
2011:
Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide- by Stacey Edgar (
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Girlfriends-Business-Poverty-Worldwide/dp/0312621736/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp)
Las Mamis (again)- various/compilation
Wow!: A Memoirito
The Road from Morocco by Wafa Faith Hallam
Searching for Memory:The Brain, The Mind, And The Past by Daniel L. Schacter
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Born to Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom
previously (some favorites):
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
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