Friday, May 5, 2023

Reading George.

 Some recent reading and some recommendations. 


Trees. How they talk. How they walk. And why we ought to be kinder to them.

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For as long as there have been women, they've been getting short shrift. The history of how one half of humanity is treated by the other.

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Succession. About three-thousand years before it was a TV series. Bloodier and more internecine than the Sopranos.

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The battles between the West and the East are still going on.


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Gould makes Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken and Bernie Madoff look like Mother Teresa.

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Your inability to focus is nothing new. Humanity has been bemoaning distraction for centuries.

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However bad you think McKinsey is, double it. Then double it again. Then eighteen times it.

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Why was the Latin scholar a virgin? When he was asked to conjugate, he declined.

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Rough seas well-writ.

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The top gods. The big stories. And the bigger ones. Things you should know.

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An intimate look at how it happened in one tiny town in the Alps. 

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