I didn’t think they’d be able to make a movie out of the book, but I think they found a good recipe here.
What's everyone reading?
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Mixing in a book on Younger Dryas Impact Theory (the theory that an cosmic impact of some sort is connected with the extinction of megafauna in the North America somewhere around 12,000 years ago).
My interest in the distant past and geology has really been charged up by visiting Red Rocks last month.
My interest in the distant past and geology has really been charged up by visiting Red Rocks last month.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Engrossing, well-written and cleverly edited so that you can absorb a few paragraphs when your time is limited, rather than having to slog through a never-ending chapter before you can break away.
It's also somewhat reminiscent of James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed which illustrated how everything is related. In Green's work, everything is related to tuberculosis, from Stetson hats to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914.
What's more, Green provides a great deal of food for thought, in addition to clarifying the cause and effect of the disease.
This from Chapter 8, "The Bacillus":
Engrossing, well-written and cleverly edited so that you can absorb a few paragraphs when your time is limited, rather than having to slog through a never-ending chapter before you can break away.
It's also somewhat reminiscent of James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed which illustrated how everything is related. In Green's work, everything is related to tuberculosis, from Stetson hats to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914.
What's more, Green provides a great deal of food for thought, in addition to clarifying the cause and effect of the disease.
This from Chapter 8, "The Bacillus":
History is often imagined as a series of events unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events. Divorce might be an event, but it almost always results from a lengthy process -- and the same could be said for birth, or battle, or infection. Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral, from neurodivergence to sexuality, and much of what appears to be the work of individuals turns out to be the work of broad collaborations. We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero, but the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe that reality.
Best non-fiction work I've read in a while.
