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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

Reading "One Day All This Will Be Yours", by Adrian Tchaikovsky, on time travel & "repair" & thinking …

What if George W hadn't won the 2000 election? Parties govern in waves … how long 'til the the GOP had power again, anyway? Which faction would have been in power for the financial crisis of '08? The Pandemic? The invasion of Ukraine?

It's not so simple. I don't subscribe to the optimistic (yet sociopathic?) social math in Asimov's "Foundation".

#bookstodon @bookstodon #scifi #whatToRead

Charlotte Walker

I’m reading These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere. It’s a queer romance set in institutionally homophobic Cameroon. The young women are seen kissing in a bar and are arrested, the narrator’s family get her released but are very ashamed of her; she never hears of her genderqueer partner again. The story is told through letters to the missing girlfriend, who the narrator continues to long for years later #AmReading #Bookstodon

Arachnid Press

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.

Balnakeil is home to a stunning beach, an austere mansion, and the ruined Balnakeil Church. The church is visited by the book’s central character as he explores the area in which he believes he should focus his search for his missing cousin.

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RanaldClouston

This is the most fun I've had with a book in some time! The heists of master thief Arsène Lupin, published in 1907, are fresh, funny, and ingenious, from the main plots to the little details - like the break-in to a baron's home where nothing is taken, but a card is left, reading "Will return when the furniture is genuine". Read by me on the recommendation of my 10yo daughter! #MauriceLeblanc #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Andrew Kuchling

Carl Zimmer has written a number of excellent popular-science books, and AIRBORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE is his latest. It's a far-ranging survey of the history of airborne life and disease transmission, a field dubbed aerobiology.

The story starts with Louis Pasteur's experiments that grew bacteria from exposure to the air, even when done on top of mountains or glaciers. In the US Fred Meier did further experiments in the 1930s taking samples from airplanes that showed life was present into the stratosphere, even enlisting Amelia Earhart and the Lindberghs in the effort. William Firth Wells, a US government bacteriologist, first theorized that diseases like chickenpox and measles could be transmitted through air and demonstrated it in experiments, but struggled both in getting funding and in getting his work published. In the 2000 SARS was a highly visible event that led to increased study of disease transmission, and of course COVID-19 turned discussions of large-droplet vs. airborne transmission into subjects of newspaper stories and personal risk assessment.

It's another engrossing book from Zimmer. The field stumbles into obscurity through accident or misfortune, such as Meier's death in a plane crash or Wells' Tristram Shandy-esque inability to finish writing up his work, and then the arrival of COVID gives it a new importance.

#biology#medicine#science
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