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
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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.
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien …
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.
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.
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Note: All times used in this book…are solar time based on the sun's actual location in the sky which changes throughout the year. In contrast, clock time is based on an imaginary sun location that results on dividing time into equal 24 hour days throughout the year… for example solar 11am is 1 hour before solar noon.
— Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition by Brad Lancaster (Page 92)
Appreciate this small preaching on how inaccurate standard time is. And I find it hilarious Bezos is sponsoring a clock to keep "accurate" time for next millennia. longnow.org/clock/
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.
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A really stunning exploration of sensing. And a really nice incorporation of von Uexküll's "umwelt." Particularly compelling is the emphasis upon the entanglement of communication and sensory capacity.
"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.
An important read for my son's dad.
Cosmopsychism: sentience as an aspect of existence
