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.
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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the …
Through ch2, The Bezzle is so very different than the last fiction of Doctorow's I read, Walkaway. But I am enjoying it.
Just 3% in and I can tell this is a significant work. Mark's book is about #HCI. Everyone is a cyborg today: we live life in tandem with ubiquitous silicon-based processes. (My words) We need to be aware of what is happening to ourselves, so everyone should read this. But if you are in HCI, #psychology, #sociology, #business, or #management, this knowledge will directly inform your work.
I have been able to watch and imperically track this pattern of attention switching, and with it, stress and exhaustion build-up, over the last 20 years as we became more reliant on our devices.
Applies the latest findings in psychology and brain research to the wisdom of the ancients …
Haidt's work may be passed over, only to our detriment.
Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an …
Cellular impacts of chronic stress and structural violence.
Although very few of Reichert's facts and assertions are surprising (to me), the compilation is enlightening, and the guidance is overdue. I don't know how not to understate it. I wish for everyone to read this book.
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
A valuable contribution to discourse on Autism. I want to dig deeper into the psychology of masking and get more perspectives.
Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan provides a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationship …
WRT intergenerational trauma, and the imperative for our species to survive the century, this book marks a critical paradigm shift our culture must undergo. Personally, I start at chapter 2.
Because @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io told me to.
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection …
The narrator of the audio book, Raymond Todd, was just impossible for me to listen to. A shame, because they could have been good stories.
This is on my #somnambulistic list. Puts my kids to sleep with basic wisdom in a gentle, pleasant voice at 0.7 speed. (Audio book, of course.) I am sure it would work for anybody.
Countless people are struggling with anxiety, angst and stress. Here's the good news: Anxiety doesn't …
Ch 1, "We Didn't Start the Fire, Sorta" really resonates.
Traditional shamanistic medicine meets western medicine!
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate …
I would read this as food for thought regarding alternatives to property.
To me, space is where we can finally begin to stop talking about owning everything. The alternative would be to talk about ideal collective behavior, and acceptable individual choices wrt resources and situations.
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
Oooh. I want to read that too. Related: I'm trying to follow the work of the ESP project to translate cetacian vocalization using machine learning.