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Im going to watch Frankenstein on Netflix this weekend. The book is one of my favorites. I very much enjoyed Pans Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.

Here‘s a negative review from a big fan of the book. Who says he changes and leaves out big parts of the story for visuals sake, which is my fear with Del Toro.

https://youtu.be/M75fAaKvHng?si=iUCxt47pw1NUmQMC

This book means very well, but a) it actually explains things very badly, despite trying very hard, and b) fails to make a good case for taking DNA into account in trying to create a more equal society.

I am completely glazing over with this book. We're 100 pages in, and she's overcomplicatedly explained genome-wide association studies via an analogy that takes more time to lay out than it does to just explain GWAS on its own terms, and otherwise she's mostly just said: intelligence is influenced by genetics, the differences between individuals can be large, the differences between ancestral groups are likely not due to variations in the same...

This one is gonna have to be a slow read for me, because I can feel myself glazing over at times, but I do really want to read it.

To be clear: the author fully believes that intelligence is a heritable trait (along with perhaps other stuff related to success), and that we should take it into account in order to make society equitable (NOT that some people are more deserving than others as a result).

Not my favorite Mary Roach but that‘s because I‘m more interested (for better or worse) in topics like the afterlife, wildlife, & outer space than I am in care of the human body while we‘re alive. Wise? No! Yet true.

Still fascinating (though it made me grimace a few times & I‘ve got a pretty strong stomach).

I remain convinced that Mary Roach is THE coolest person. I hope she gets a personal pig so she can live & write for a very long time. 🐷

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-moves-define-all-nonconsensual-sex-rape-a...

A #beautybreak courtesy of my sister. 🦋 #butterflies

Are you curious about replacement organs and transplants? Body science? Medical history? Mary Roach approaches all of this with her usual humor in this new release. I learned quite a bit as always.

Random book from our personal library.

“People don‘t realize how dangerous anesthesia can be, said Jordan Newmark, who is the anesthesiologist I met. “I‘ve been saying for years, they should make a movie like Top Gun but about anesthesiology,” he said when we first spoke. At the time, this confused me. It was as though Jordan had access to some bizarro elevator-pitch app that randomly combined hit movies with medical specialties. Like Gladiator, but about urology. He was insistent: