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stone-cold-groove · 5 months
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Take these 12 genuine prehistoric fossils for only 10¢.
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If you read The Overstory by Richard Powers, I recommend Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, a memoir by the actual woman who discovered that trees communicate.
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bugthebard · 1 year
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do you have any reading recs for someone who wants to learn about bugs?
Oh absolutely! There are so many lovely popular science entomology books. I'll name a few, but there are tons more for specific bugs you might be interested in if you search around! I've got four in mind that I've read that I think provide some nice variety.
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Buzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
I so enjoyed this book. It's not about any specific insect, but it's a delightful tour of a bunch of cool adaptations and the like in the arthropod world. I think it'd be a good choice if you're new to the whole thing as it's fun, light, and has lots of different groups represented. I learned about a wild interaction between ground-nesting bees and blister beetles from this one that I ended up making a little video on.
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Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn
I love the household ecosystem! This book isn't just arthropods — it also covers bacteria and other organisms you might find in your home. But it's so neat! And tonally it's refreshing because it doesn't attempt to scare you about what's in your house. Rather, it invites you to engage with your fellow home inhabitants.
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Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
This is such an interesting deep dive into honey bee behavior. I think a lot of people know bees are smart but don't quite realize how complex their social behavior gets. I also am charmed by any book that includes a chapter on incorporating another animal's behavior as a lesson to our own human society (the last chapter is basically "what can we learn from the voting system of honey bees?", an adorable thought).
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The Sting of the Wild by Justin O. Schmidt
The Schmidt pain scale is a bit infamous. Dr. Schmidt made a whole collection of insects sting him, and rated them on a scale based on the pain he felt. With descriptions like "someone has fired a staple into your cheek," it's definitely not the most objective, but it is a good time. And following his journey getting stung by everything (including his grad students that followed in his footsteps in some very funny ways) is entertaining.
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scienceysideblog · 26 days
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borrowed this from the library yesterday, there's still a couple of things before it on my to be read but I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping it might be similar to my favourite science book Rutherford and Fry's guide to absolutely everything (which I still need to make a post about)
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cryingoflot49 · 8 months
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othmeralia · 2 years
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The large red or the party coloured Crowfoote of Asia would be make for such a nice tattoo! This woodcut comes from Theatrum botanicum (1640).
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gomedorgohome · 2 years
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September reads 📚🍂
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durinsbride · 6 months
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Science Book Recs!
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astrantiia · 7 months
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today me and my mom walked around the city all day and I finally bought a book about gravitational waves, which I have been wanting for a very long time
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arconinternet · 11 days
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Bang! The Ultimate Book of Explosions Big and Small (Book, Rod Green, 2003)
You can digitally borrow it here.
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peonybookblog · 10 months
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Hey, new Dan Egan? And I had to find out by myself, while wandering around the bookstore three months after it came out? Anyway, awesome book. For context if you’ve read The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, it’s a bit shorter, but slightly more jargon-heavy/less accessible. This is also the perfect time of year to read it with unseasonably early blue-green algal blooms starting already. (On that note, pay attention to beach closures, especially if you’re there with your dog!)
The Devil’s Element is definitely the 10,000 foot view of phosphorus, and I do (unfortunately for my limited free time) want to read a lot more. Egan covers everything from its discovery, to its use in WWII, to the politics of ethanol, to current issues in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and the surrounding area. There is also a very brief mention of corporations trying to refuse to change their irresponsible business practices on the basis that it would upset America’s housewives. There are a ton of citations and a bibliography in the back, so if you want to learn more, you’ll have a good place to start!
I read The Devil’s Element through the Libby app (which saves me so much money, and I can’t recommend it enough), but my Bookshop affiliate link if you’d like to purchase your own copy is here. Don’t forget to check if your favorite local indie bookstore as an affiliate page instead!
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stone-cold-groove · 8 days
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Atoms the Core of all Matter - 1959.
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katiajewelbox · 22 days
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Happy World Book Day! Here's what I'm currently reading - The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.
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uwmspeccoll · 2 years
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Science Saturday
We return to our Historical Curriculum Collection children’s book All Around Us by Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Gertrude Crampton, and William S. Gray, and published by Scott, Foresman and Company in Chicago in 1944. This is Book B in the Scott Foresman Basic Studies in Science: Curriculum Foundation Series. The series was based on the experiential “Look and Learn” approach.
Previously we highlighted sections on animals and plants from this book. Today we focus on the “Sun, Wind, and Weather” section with emphasis on sunlight and shadow, using thermometers, and the wind as force. Russian-born Chicago artist and illustrator Gregory Orloff did the illustrations for “Do Shadows Help Tell Time?” and the girls experimenting with thermometers, while the remainder are by the husband and wife team of A. F. Hurford and Miriam Story Hurford.  Miriam Hurford is remembered especially as one of the illustrators for Scott Foresman’s Dick and Jane readers, which was written by William S. Gray.
View more posts from All Around Us.
View our other Science Saturday posts.
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eatsowhat · 11 months
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I recommend checking out a book boxset that includes six books. Save some bucks and boost your health!
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scienceysideblog · 3 months
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A few weeks ago, I saw this book on the library
I tend to pick up anything I can find on autism because there's not much out there and also some of what is portrays autistic people or autism in a purely negative light which I find upsetting and overwhelming to read even if I know it's true for some autistic people.
Anyways, this book immediately caught my attention and then when I read the blurb I knew this was exactly my sort of thing.
Part of the reason I love science is because it helps make things make sense and in a world where for me so many things don't seem to make sense, science is a lifeline that I can understand. Science is a tool I use to understand the world and also to understand more about myself and the way my brain works. When I experienced autistic burnout, when I was feeling overwhelmed and anxious and I didn't know where to turn, I looked to see if I could find any published research papers on burnout. (the lack of research into autistic burnout is something I am hoping to address at some point too). The single study I did find was invaluable to me. Science can provide reassurance that there is a reason and an explanation for things that you are experiencing.
This book seems to be based very strongly on this idea that science can help us understand ourselves and be happier not just through the facts we can learn but through the other lessons those facts can teach us. I knew most of the science already (as the book is directed at younger children) but there were ideas I hadn't thought of before that could actually be very helpful
Some of my favourite ideas were :
The different properties of metal and how this makes them useful is a good illustration of why it is important to have difference
We could model influences and priorities in our life as forces (like a free body) . I love graphs and diagrams and I think they can be useful in lots of situations not just experiments.
We could use our understanding of sunlight providing energy for photosynthesis as a way to consider how different things can give us energy back in our lives eg. Our passions and interests. This also suggests that this is a natural thing to need.
Everyone is adapted to their own personal habitat similarly to different animals being adapted to theirs. Stepping out of your comfort zone is a bit like adapting to a new habitat.
I think that the contents and information in this book would have been more revolutionary for me as a child however now the more revolutionary thing is that it exists, that there is an autistic person, an autistic woman who is living all of my dreams. Because I hope and I do my best and I work hard but in the back of my mind I think some people will think I'll never be a real scientist. Watching a video of Dr pang talking and seeing that her eye contact is different to most people's, but similar to mine. And that that isn't important because she's talking about subjects she's so passionate about. That's what means so much to me. That helps me keep going.
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