Monday, June 28, 2021

Chiluana Falls Backpack

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 Arturo suggested Chilnualna Falls as a place in Yosemite that nobody ever considers for a backcountry camping trip, and indeed when I look...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Review: Radium Girls

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 Radium Girls is the story of the dial painters for the Radium Corporation,  how it recruited women to pain watch dials and other instrument...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Review: Klara and the Sun

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 Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's "science fiction" novel about a single mom who purchases an Artificial Friend (AF) for...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Review: Working Backwards

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 Working Backwards is written by two Amazon executives who'd each been at Amazon for more than 10 years. When reading business books li...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Review: Fundamentals - Ten Keys to Reality

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 Ten Keys to Reality is a book by Frank Wilczek about physics. Wilczek won the Nobel prize in 2004, and so is in a good position to teach p...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Review: Invincible Compendium 3

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 Invincible Compendium 3 is the last book in the Invincible series. It covers the fighting  Viltrumite factions and demonstrates that in a ...
Monday, June 07, 2021

Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

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 Deaths of Despair has a simple, unique thesis. The thesis is that the cost of healthcare and private health insurance has gotten so high t...
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Thursday, June 03, 2021

Review: Molecules - The Elements and the Architecture of Everything

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 I bought Molecules hoping Bowen would read it. He showed no interest but I read it and loved it! Chemistry was one of my favorite subjects...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Review: Happy City

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 Happy City is a book about urban design. You probably already know the principles behind it if you've ever lived in or even visited fo...
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Monday, May 31, 2021

Review: The Code Breaker

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 The Code Breaker is Isaacson's biography of Jennifer Doudna, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 2020. Unlike his previous biogra...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Re-read: Range

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 My reading of Anders Ericsson's Peak made be go back and revisit Range . Lazlo Polgar and his chess playing daughters make an appearanc...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Review: Inno Square Bar Roof Rack and Yakima Front Loader Bike Rack

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 We've been doing a mountain bike ride week after week, and my approach has been to remove the front wheel of both the kids bike, lay do...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man 8, 9, 10

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 Bowen kept asking for more Spiderman, so I checked out Cats & Kings , Ultimate Six , and Hollywood from the library to read to him. I...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Review: Source Wxp 3L Storm Valve Hydration Reservoir

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 Ever since the 2019 trip to Bavaria , I've been jealous of Boen's hydration reservoir, mostly because of its cap. The cap means tha...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Review: Peak - Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

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 To say that Anders Ericsson, the author of Peak , is a legend would be an understatement. Over the years, his name has come up in various b...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

Review: Gotham by Gaslight

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 The reveal in the animated version of Gotham by Gaslight was impressive, so I checked out the book from the library. With art by Mike Mig...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Review: Extreme Medicine

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 Extreme Medicine is a book about how exploration transformed medicine and vice-versa, and starts off with the discussion of Robert F Scott...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Review: March Trilogy

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 March: Trilogy is the story of the Civil Rights  movement as told by the late John Lewis. I've already read about much of this in Mast...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 6 + 7

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 Ultimate Spider-Man 6 recounts the story of Venom, but I didn't like it compared to the original story, where the venom suit was origi...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Review: Exercised

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  Exercised is an evolutionary biologist's view of the modern invention of exercise. It turns out that Dan Lieberman was the person whos...