Genre: Literary Non-Fiction, Biography, History Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This non-fiction epic is like a rambling rose bush that extends far out into the unknown forest of intellectual curiosity. It features interwoven and enmeshed stories about roses and politics, cultivated by master writer of non-fiction Rebecca Solnit. Yet this is also a biography of one of Britain’sContinue reading “Book Review: Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit”
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Tree spirits, ghost gums and animal familiars
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? If you ever find yourself in a time of great stress and upsetting circumstances, the natural world wants to calm and sooth you, if you get outside and start to observe things yourself, you will see. In parks, large trunked trees swing and sway in the wind.Continue reading “Tree spirits, ghost gums and animal familiars”
Book Review: Kindred Neanderthal Life Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
If you are anything like me and are fascinated by pre-history when oversized marsupials ruled Australia and there were multiple species of humans wandering around, then you absolutely must read this book. It’s a magnum opus of the Neanderthal world. #Bookreview #Ancient #History
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #127
Enjoy a gigantic fluffy cat getting groomed, Leonor Fini’s wisdom and deeply comforting art, some funky Italodisco, intricate Japanese artistry, genre-shifting music recommendations and much more, it’s edition #127 of #InterestingThings by #ContentCatnip!
Unplug from the world, plug in to yourself
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen? The world, work and the demands of people can be confusing, demotivating and exhausting at times. I wonder if you can relate to that? How to unplug from that? Tsundoku A collection of Tsundoku: books 📚 not yetContinue reading “Unplug from the world, plug in to yourself”
Book Review: The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller
Have you ever wondered where the original ideas in mathematics, astronomy, #science, medicine, #philosophy ever came from? The answers to these questions are in this remarkable #history book #nonfiction #philosophy
Book Review: How Not to Die by Dr Michael Greger MD
With its rather dramatic title ‘How Not To Die’ is a timeless guide to a lifetime of good health. If you only buy one book about health in your lifetime, let this be the one. How Not to Die’s scope is vast and covers all aspects of human health, disease and preventative medicine and provides an overwhelming amount of evidence about the simplest intervention possible – a plant-based diet.
Ok Doomer: Are Millennials ‘Generation Exhausted’?
Covid and endless inflation, AI and global conflicts, misinformation and political instability. Climate change and extinction. The world is full of unknowns and bin fires at the moment. All of the above unknowns are getting onto my head like a low-key buzzing static sound just below perceptible human hearing. Animals hear it. Plants hear it.Continue reading “Ok Doomer: Are Millennials ‘Generation Exhausted’?”
Comforting Thought A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean
There is an ancient Taoist expression that ‘A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean’. This is a reminder to be humble and to accept the world as being vast, with our own knowledge of it limited. We must never assume to have the answers to everything, but instead be humble students.
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #126
A mesmeric trance session to put your feet up to or dance the night away, an interesting infographic about types of intelligence, cities with rude names, dog reflections, news caption fails, vegetable bahn mi tacos and much more, it’s edition #162.
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