en-US Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:13:46 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review3664409347 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:13:46 -0700 /review/show/3664409347 Chris gave 4 stars to Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1) by Nathan W. Pyle
]]> Review7365437511 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:35:14 -0800 /review/show/7365437511 Chris gave 5 stars to Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover) by Ed Conway
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This author is up front in telling you that you'll look at the world differently after reading what he wrote, and he was right. This book was excellent. ]]> Review7089698293 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:31:49 -0800 /review/show/7089698293 Chris gave 5 stars to A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More (Kindle Edition) by Dave Barry
Anything with Dave Barry in the author column still appears to be an automatic five stars. ]]> Review7246749240 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:02:59 -0800 /review/show/7246749240 Chris gave 4 stars to Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers (Kindle Edition) by Paulina Rowińska
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I really enjoyed this book, but I am going to get persnickety about this one particular sentence...

"As Marie Tharp discovered, volcanoes appear where tectonic plates meet, but this doesn’t explain regions such as Yellowstone, Hawaii, or Iceland, which are nowhere near such a boundary."

Rowińska, Paulina. Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World (p. 223). Harvard University Press. Kindle Edition.

Iceland is most certainly at the boundary of the North American plate and the Eurasian plate. Many sources will confirm that, and I've been to some of the specific areas in Iceland where the country of Iceland advertises that these plates meet.
]]> ReadStatus8750630680 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:46:07 -0800 /review/show/7089698293 Chris is currently reading A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More by Dave Barry
]]> Review7089689946 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:44:26 -0800 /review/show/7089689946 Chris gave 5 stars to The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover) by David Graeber
A really deep dive into a fascinating subject, us. ]]> ReadStatus8750614434 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:40:47 -0800 /review/show/7089686793 Chris wants to read Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy by Michael Kosta
]]> Review6836178710 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:14:47 -0700 /review/show/6836178710 Chris gave 5 stars to Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover) by Yuval Noah Harari
Granted this particular topic interests me far more than most do. Like millions of people, I have read Sapiens, and thought it was excellent. I liked this book even more and I felt it was very relevant to the intersubjective realities that many of us share. I teach a course in AI, and I thought there were many excellent snippets that were worthy of discussion in my class. ]]> Review6592268093 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:23:36 -0700 /review/show/6592268093 Chris gave 4 stars to Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover) by Ben Goldfarb
An excellent book. I had wondered for a long time about how our roads affected our environment. This book was a well researched answer to many if not most of my questions. ]]> ReadStatus8392932181 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:56:40 -0700 /review/show/6836178710 Chris wants to read Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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