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Books! Also, science, reason, humanism and progress. Molecular biology PhD student.
Carl called it.
03.08.2025 07:21 — 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0Sounds good.
03.08.2025 09:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning, Womble. I’m reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman and it’s fascinating. Enjoy your holiday!
03.08.2025 08:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looks nice.
02.08.2025 07:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for letting me know about this. I like the book too so will definitely pick up the new edition.
01.08.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of the paperback book described in the post.
Currently reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman. #PopSci
30.07.2025 08:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 247-million-year-old reptile with a bizarre feather-like crest. Art by Tobias Wilhelm/State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Here's a newly uncovered fossil that's an evolutionary puzzle. Its plume is not made of feathers. But it's feather-ish. Here's my story (gift link): nyti.ms/40UUlAP
23.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 330 🔁 71 💬 6 📌 9Nice observations.
22.07.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to modulate biological aging (body-wide, epigenetic)
—Obesity accelerates
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Exercise slows
thelancet.com/action/showP... @thelancet.com
Currently reading A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee. #PopSci @endofthepier.bsky.social
13.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Loved it. 5 stars from me.
13.07.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New acquisition: Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory. How the Atom Will Save the World. #PopSci
08.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a whopper!
06.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 04 stars. Very good book.
06.07.2025 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning Womble, I’m reading about the evolution of Australian mammals by reading Platypus Matters by Jack Ashby.
06.07.2025 08:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Currently reading Platypus Matters, The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals, by Jack Ashby. #PopSci @jackdashby.bsky.social
06.07.2025 08:17 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 05 stars for Destroyer of Worlds. It’s a great book.
06.07.2025 08:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I see. Thank you!
02.07.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How would you describe them (to someone who has never seen them)?
01.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reading this now and enjoying it. Why does Close refer to Charles Darwin as a famous botanist, though?
30.06.2025 07:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Morning, Womble! I’m reading Destroyer of Worlds by Frank Close, a well-written history of nuclear physics. It’s great.
29.06.2025 08:07 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Sounds like an emotional read. It’s now on my list.
28.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of the hardback edition of the book described in the post.
Currently reading Destroyer of Worlds. The Deep History of the Nuclear Age 1895-1965 by Frank Close. #PopSci
28.06.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The greatest show on Earth.
27.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Update: the replacement copy arrived and is in good order.
27.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for this. Relatedly, too much of science teaching is about what we know, not how we found out about what we know (often lovely experiments like this one).
26.06.2025 12:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
24.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 490 🔁 89 💬 3 📌 5Apparently, while dying of TB, Keats wrote: “We cannot be created for this sort of suffering”. Poor chap.
25.06.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bought this after your glowing review.
25.06.2025 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of the hardback signed edition of the book mentioned in the post.
Currently reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #PopSci
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