Monthly Archives: April 2024

Escalatory Retaliation, Or How History Feels When It Is Being Written

Posted on April 14, 2024 by nathanalbright

I happened to glance at my phone as I was getting ready to leave services and go to dinner, and found that on both Skype and Telegram, a dear friend of mine (who happens to live near the center of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Short Philosophy Of Birds

Posted on April 14, 2024 by nathanalbright

A Short Philosophy Of Birds, by Philippe J. DuBois and Elise Rousseau This book is at its best when it is describing the life of birds, and at its worst when it is philosophizing from the behavior of birds. While … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Scatter, Adapt, And Remember

Posted on April 13, 2024 by nathanalbright

Scatter, Adapt, And Remember: how Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newitz Most of my way through this book, I was (wrongly) convinced that this book would be better than the usual fare of pessimistic, apocalyptic rants about … Continue reading →

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Book Review: X-Treme Latin

Posted on April 12, 2024 by nathanalbright

X-Treme Latin: All The Latin You Need To Know For Surviving The 21st Century, by Henry Beard This book is not meant to be taken seriously. I am not sure it is necessary for me to say this, but given … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Nowhere Left To Go

Posted on April 11, 2024 by nathanalbright

Nowhere Left To Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species To The Ends Of The Earth, by Benjamin Von Brackel A book as melodramatic as this one deserves a soundtrack with the (almost) title track being Melissa Ethridge’s “Nowhere To … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Urban Jungle

Posted on April 10, 2024 by nathanalbright

Urban Jungle: The History And Future Of Nature In The City, by Ben Wilson While cities and the creation around them have often been viewed in antagonistic terms, the best examples of cities in history as well as in the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ends Of The World

Posted on April 9, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Ends Of The World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, And Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen It is perhaps too much to be hoped for that a book about prehistory, namely the evidence that exists … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Devil’s Element

Posted on April 8, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus And A World Out Of Balance, by Dan Egan This book hit surprisingly close to home for me. As a child, I grew up in the area very close where Florida’s phosphorus business goes on, and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Secret Life Of The City

Posted on April 7, 2024 by nathanalbright

Secret Life Of The City: How Nature Thrives In The Urban Wild, by Hanna Bjorgaas I remember reading a book originally in Norwegian about geography and finding it faintly ridiculous that the author found Norwegian cartography so notable on the … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Know The Way I Feel Inside

Posted on April 6, 2024 by nathanalbright

In early 1988, the obscure UK pop duo Scarlett & Black had their only charting hit in the emotional “You Don’t Know.” The group, a male-female duo who had both been in prior bands before working together, only released one … Continue reading →

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