Just finished reading Critical Race Theory: An Introduction and Towards a European Critical Race Theory as the former is very US-centric and not so accessible to someone not immersed in/familiar with that history.
Both are highly recommended reading, the former especially (it contains an excellent explanation, with examples, of what intersectionality is).
Reading Don’t Think of an Elephant to cheer myself up post-#GE2015. Focused on US politics, but relevant wherever there are language-using humans. ESSENTIAL read.
Finished reading The Singing Neanderthals. Highly recommended to anyone interested in music, language or human evolution.
Hefty tome (new #reading material after a semi-successful library visit), more Lakoff:
#reading @micrypt on doing things The Hard Way which you know to be right rather than the easy way which is provably flawed #bookmark
measuringworth.com is an excellent — if somewhat confusing — tool for calculating the relative historic worth of currency #bookmark
I was astonished to learn that the 2012 value of the $30 Henry David Thoreau spent building his house beside Walden pond in 1854 could actually vary from $846 to $128,000!
Current #hypertext history reading/watching list:
#reading The Art Of Noise, Luigi Russolo 1913
Fascinating — Konrad Lorenz compares cultural revolution with exoskeleton-clad Arthropods shedding their shells:
The act of demolishing carefully erected structures, though indispensable if better adapted ones are to arise, is always followed by a period of vulnerability.
#reading On Aggression
“The spirit of the law, not the letter of the law, should be your guide” About Face 2.0
Just found out that English as She is Spoke is on wikisource. Highly recommended to all.
Finished reading The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau.
It’s a bit strange in that it has no real order and is a collection of semi–related stories about the development and use of the aqualung. Very informative about some of the physiological effects of diving.
A particularly potent part is Cousteau’s story of the first time bottom trawling had ever been filmed, revealing it to be a hideously inefficient and ineffective method of trawling. No–one had ever realised before, because no one had ever actually seen a net working.
Finished reading Steve Jobs, The man who thought different by Karen Blumenthal.
A nice summary of Steve’s life, with some interesting details I’d not come across before. The technical mistakes were a let–down, and the language was patronising at times (e.g. explaining what “profit” meant).
From Steve Jobs, The man who thought different:
The result, the World Wide Web, what we know today as the Internet
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH
Just because the book is not intended for a technical audience does not excuse blatant mistakes. If anything, it makes accuracy more important.