My April reading list:
4/9 Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
4/15 Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail
4/15 Tadashi Agi (story) and Shu Okimoto (art), The Drops of God: Volume 15
4/16 Naomi Novik, Black Powder War
4/20 Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
4/23 Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
4/24 Will Kurt, Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, LEGO, and Rubber Ducks
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)" on YouTube https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
>You're listening to the official audio for Gordon Lightfoot - "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" from the album 'Summertime Dream'. Lightfoot wrote "Wreck Of T...
Researchers have made a significant advance in designing a “mini gene” treatment for Usher Syndrome (summary, and published paper below). What’s amazing about this is the level of understanding of the chemistry, genes, biochemistry, structural biology, etc. needed design the result. The work was funded directly by my family and many many others under the leadership of the Usher 1F collaborative. Money goes in one end, and science and therapies come out the other :-)
Psyching myself up to read “Nona the Ninth”. The first two books nearly fried my brain but in a good way. Now I’m worried I need to reread them to appreciate the latest. #books#bookstodon
@cazabon
the microwave/convection oven that was in our house when we bought the house in '93 lasted 20 years. these days one is lucky to get 7 years out of them. ditto for other appliances. I'd rather pay more for something that will last, rather than contribute to the ever increasing cycle of contributing to landfill and buying a new appliance
"When you say that a bill will allow kids to work more or under dangerous conditions, it sounds wildly unpopular," Campbell said. "You have to make the case that, no, this is really about parental rights, a very carefully chosen term that's really hard to disagree with."
I find it boring to pick the same starting word in Wordle everyday! I go random and my choice often reflects my mood. My husband, the engineer, picks the same first and second word. Maybe it’s a right vs left brain thing but I definitely feel like it’s a personality difference. Who’s with me? #wordle#gorandom
Binging The Diplomat, eating popcorn too late, changing out my sweaters for t-shirts, planning a productive Sunday of farmers marketing and WWDC prep, and hoping my son is having a good time at prom (and that he makes it home safely).
