Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.
Here, for the first time in …
2017? How did I miss this?
User Profile
Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.
I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.
I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org
This link opens in a pop-up window
Travis F W's books
User Activity
RSS feed Back
Travis F W started reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
Narrated by the brilliant Stephen Fry, this audiobook features an inspiring prologue read by the …
Context for Cory Doctorow's Enshittification @emmecola@mastodon.uno @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Travis F W wants to read Finding Lights in a Dark Age by Chris Smaje
Travis F W wants to read Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether …
I would hope endocrinology has made significant advances since this third edition in 2004, but this looks like a significant book anyway.
Travis F W replied to Phil in SF's status
Travis F W
boosted
Phil in SF started reading The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
From the bestselling author of Sex Object, a searing investigation into American culture’s obsession with virginity, and the argument for …
Travis F W
boosted
In ...and forgive them their debts, renowned economist Michael Hudson - one of the …
The Mosaic injuction (Leviticus 25), "Proclaim liberty throughout the land," is inscribed on America's Liberty Bell. That is a translation of Hebrew deror, the debt Jubilee, cognate to the Akkadian adurārum. The liberty was originally from debt peonage.
Travis F W stopped reading Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
Halfway through I have lost interest. Too much sexism and toxic masculinity.
Travis F W wants to read Aroused by Randi Hutter Epstein MD
Since I was forced to take ritalin for five years of my chirdhood my endocrine system has been fucked. I have always been at a loss to describe these challenges, and learning about it has always taken a back seat to higher priorities like major depression and paying bills and PTSD triggers. But I have learned that some amino acid supplements can be really helpful at the right times (when I'm deficient) and it is time for me to tackle this. Maybe gain some insight into anhedonia while I am at it.
Travis F W commented on Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
When #Heinlein illustrated the Martian's maturity by having him kill someone and then have sex, and then go out on his own, and subsequently had the main female character say something victim blaming about rape, my interest in this book dropped to little more than a poorly substantiated drive to finish what I start.
Recommended to me
Travis F W wants to read This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the …
I certainly enjoyed the last book of his I read.
Travis F W quoted The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet …
Even the most extraordinary genius can accomplish very little alone.
— The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (82%)
I, personally, receive this as a reminder that hero worship is misguided.
Travis F W started reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how …
this is very nicely written and narrated. i am enjoying it very much.
Travis F W started reading Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
My partner wants to read this to me. Holding up pretty well, except for some tired sexist tropes (nothing too horrific … what do I expect from 40+ years), Heinlein's failure to predict cell phones, and the successful missions to Mars in recent decades. Still quite a few good lines and thought provoking scenarios.