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There are so many musical acts that I'm aware of, have listened to a few songs, but haven't really given much thought or attention. Until a few days ago, Goldfrapp was one of those acts for me, but I somehow found myself listening to their album Supernature and wearing out the like button on Spotify. It's got so many attention-grabbing, danceable tracks. Really glad they came up on my streaming roulette!

British mariners had latitude figured pretty early on, but longitude flummoxed them to the point of shipwrecks and lost lives occurring because they just didn‘t know where they were. This book talks about the efforts to fix longitude and the machinations of the organization created when someone finally did so. If you‘re looking for an excellent, short narrative nonfiction book, look no further. #ReadYourEbooks

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This wasn‘t my favorite of Mary Roach‘s investigations into bizarre topics…but I‘m always pleased to be gifted a view into her brain. She‘s so funny & smart, & I‘d be delighted to invite her to share inappropriately grotesque facts around my dinner table.

Now, excuse me. A beloved English professor once taught me the definition of tappen: “the non-existent rectal plug of a hibernating bear,” & Roach wrote that they do exist. I must fact-check.

As the red states compete to out-dumb each other, this is Arizona's latest contribution.

3/5
Étienne Klein recounts his search to discover what came of Ettore Majorana, a brilliant physicist who chose to disappear in 1938. Suicide, new life? Klein covers Majorana's impact in the field of physics, how he's still quite relevant today.
Despite Klein's efforts to simplify the science, I must admit having been lost in some parts because I don't have the basics...
Overall, Klein brushes an interesting portrait of a complicated man.

This was quite philosophical at times. Does it make sense to save a species that is then unable to live in the wild? Is it fair to that animal? What constitues true conservation? Life at all costs? There are even DNA banks, called frozen zoo's, with samples of over a thousand different species of insects, fish and mammals saved in them. (10,000 individual cells.) To what end remains to be seen. Overall it was a facinating read and I learned a lot.

I enjoyed this very much. 🩵 #naturalitsy

In case you missed it our discussion was postponed and will be at a later date this month. @AllDebooks