Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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Shamanism: A universal practice
There are those who travel spirit worlds. They may know that those worlds only exist in their minds, or they may believe that those worlds…
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Tom McGuane’s Cameo: He probably made an appearance in a Jimmy Buffett music video
I’m 80% sure that writer Thomas McGuane makes a cameo appearance in the music video for Jimmy Buffett’s 1974 song Come Monday. 70 seconds in,…
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Birds, Sex & Beauty: Matt Ridley’s new book on sexual selection
We’ve been on earth all these years and we still don’t know for certain why birds sing […] If the lyric is simply “mine mine…
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Mammals are Prose; Birds are Poetry
It dawned on me that my species probably does not really know the half of it about beauty. Not like the birds do and other…
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In Patagonia: Arid wastes taking a firm possession of the mind
Bruce Chatwin’s most well-known work is In Patagonia. It’s a mix of travel writing, history and a fiction. It was first published in 1977. Below…
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Great Argus: Sexual selection of an optical illusion
Charles Darwin included an illustration of the feathers of the great argus pheasant in The Descent of Man. The pattern on great argus feathers seem…
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