What are you reading?

I'm reading my first epic fantasy series... it's called A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin... I just started the 4th book called A Feast for Crows... Much like many other fantasy epics, it claims to be the best think since Tolkien... I can't really speak on that since I have yet yo read the Lord of the Rings, but I can say I dig these books. The series is still being written and book five is due out later this year... it has also been picked up by HBO. The pilot was just finished (which is probably why the 5th book is about a year behind schedule). The series has basically ruined me for other books... I can't get into anything else and have no idea what I will do while waiting for the 5th book... so what are you reading?

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silvermouse

webmost said:

What we have learned in the age of relativity is that the problem with the answer is the the. What we have unlearned is the answer.

Are we any happier for having traded the answer for there is no answer?

Are we any closer to the truth?

Uncertainty makes most people uncomfortable. Many would rather be mistaking their opinions for not-knowing. Social media makes that easy. Schools beat not-knowing out of us.

Markwell

Just got the first edition of the last book my friend Bill Withuhn wrote before his death, published by his family earlier this year. Bill was quite a brilliant mind when it came to steam. He was the head transportation curator for Smithsonian Institute's American History Museum as well as a fully qualified locomotive engineer for many decades.

YankeeMan

Killing Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly. Digs deep into the nitty gritty of historical events.

VegasFrank

BKDog said:

Currently reading Epictetus (The Enchiridion).

Easy for you to say...

Martel

VegasFrank said:

BKDog said:

Currently reading Epictetus (The Enchiridion).

Easy for you to say...

The genre of "handbook" is kinda fascinating to me. 1 John is considered by some scholars to be a version of an enchiridion rather than other classifications it might be labeled with. It doesn't take the typical form of an ancient letter. How to give guidance and advice for life.

CalvinAndHobo

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

Captain_Call

CalvinAndHobo said:

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

It was wild wasn't it!?

CalvinAndHobo

Captain_Call said:

CalvinAndHobo said:

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

It was wild wasn't it!?

I'm already excited to read it again knowing the ending, and to see what I missed.

johnnyB

CalvinAndHobo said:

Captain_Call said:

CalvinAndHobo said:

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

It was wild wasn't it!?

I'm already excited to read it again knowing the ending, and to see what I missed.

Love the silo series great read

silvermouse

well, you asked, lol.

Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/10/3/707/4840377

silvermouse

human biocomputer research:

A CRISPR/Cas9-based central processing unit to program complex logic computation in human cells
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/15/7214

silvermouse

https://www.academia.edu/38973343/Tao_Physics_and_Unification_in_Consciousness_Everything_is_one

Markwell

Just reading the title makes my wee brain hurt Edward

silvermouse

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235257/

https://researchfeatures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dr-Tania-Roth-University-of-Delaware-Epigenetics.pdf

reading this morning about how adverse early experiences are sometimes coded epigenetically in one's dna and this song occurred to me. Learning to compensate for one's mind/body unwanted programming is a great challenge; it's so easy to fall down the wrong rabbit hole:

White Rabbit by Grace Slick:

[Verse 1]

One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall

[Verse 2]

And if you go chasing rabbits

And you know you're going to fall

Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call...

Call Alice

When she was just small

[Verse 3]

When the men on the chessboard

Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom

And your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice

I think she'll know

[Verse 4]

When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead

And the White Knight is talking backwards

And the Red Queen's off with her head

Remember what the Dormouse said

Feed your head

First_Warrior

New World Kitchen by Norman Van Aken. Great cook book on Latin American and Caribbean eats. Picked it up at the thrift store. Reading this makes me hungry.

ForMud

CalvinAndHobo said:

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

johnnyB said:

CalvinAndHobo said:

Captain_Call said:

CalvinAndHobo said:

Shift - Hugh Howey

Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.

It was wild wasn't it!?

I'm already excited to read it again knowing the ending, and to see what I missed.

Love the silo series great read

I read that series when it first came out.....I agree 100%

silvermouse

titanium dioxide in food
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00057/full

"This study investigated effects of titanium dioxide on gut health in mice and found that titanium dioxide did not change the composition of gut microbiota, but instead it affected bacteria activity and promoted their growth in a form of undesired biofilm.

VegasFrank

Good to know!

silvermouse

Yeah, another thing to look for in the ingredients list. It's in toothpaste, cosmetics, condiments, frostings, sausages, lots of processed foods. France is banning it starting next year. Best to stay away from most processed foods. Most TiO2 in food is non-nano, but it breaks down to sewage treatment plants...

Environmental waste introduction[edit]

Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is mostly introduced into the environment as nanoparticles via wastewater treatment plants.[85] Cosmetic pigments including titanium dioxide enter the wastewater when the product is washed off into sinks after cosmetic use. Once in the sewage treatment plants, pigments separate into sewage sludge which can then be released into the soil when injected into the soil or distributed on its surface. 99% of these nanoparticles wind up on land rather than in aquatic environments due to their retention in sewage sludge.[85]In the environment, titanium dioxide nanoparticles have low to negligible solubility and have been shown to be stable once particle aggregates are formed in soil and water surroundings.[85] In the process of dissolution, water-soluble ions typically dissociate from the nanoparticle into solution when thermodynamically unstable. TiO2 dissolution increases when there are higher levels of dissolved organic matter and clay in the soil. However, aggregation is promoted by pH at the isoelectric point of TiO2 (pH = 5.8) which renders it neutral and solution ion concentrations above 4.5 mM.[86][87]

In 2019, France decided to ban the use of titantium dioxide in food from 2020 on.[88]

First_Warrior

One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Chilling novel about the effects of a electromagnetic attack on the USA. Takes place in Black Mountain north of Asheville. I know the area well and that made the book compelling. Starting The Last Man by Vince Flynn.

silvermouse

https://www.academia.edu/39150604/self_and_no_self

“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” ~ Norbert Wiener

"After many intense years of study and Bhavana or mental development, the Buddha, sitting under the Bodhi tree on the night of a full moon, experienced a remarkable insight. He realized that all observable phenomena are dynamic, subject to constant change, to co-rising and ceasing, and that there are no permanent beginning or end states—either physical or mental. Everything changes, thus, there is no fixed ‘essence’ or ultimate nature only a process of becoming which implies impermanence (Anicca). Likewise there is no static, permanent self or soul, only a continuously evolving pattern. This seemingly simple statement has profound implications."

VegasFrank

First_Warrior said:

One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Chilling novel about the effects of a electromagnetic attack on the USA. Takes place in Black Mountain north of Asheville. I know the area well and that made the book compelling. Starting The Last Man by Vince Flynn.

Really good novel and heart wrenching @First_Warrior . One year after is also a great sequel. The third book is the third best book in the series, but still pretty good.

First_Warrior

Didn't know that One Second After was part of a series. I'll hit our library and see what they have. Thanks Frank.

silvermouse

Possibilities for Engineered Insect Tissue as a Food Source
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00024/full

CalvinAndHobo

Forgot about this thread. I'm on the third book in the John Wells series, "The Silent Man" by Alex Berenson. The first and second ones were really good, this one is meh. Hoping the next book is better.

Captain_Call

CalvinAndHobo said:

Forgot about this thread. I'm on the third book in the John Wells series, "The Silent Man" by Alex Berenson. The first and second ones were really good, this one is meh. Hoping the next book is better.

I was just about to ask if you read anything good lately

silvermouse

Metabolism of Dietary and Microbial Vitamin B Family in the Regulation of Host Immunity

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00048/full

Yakster

Shelf life of infrared dry-roasted almonds.

http://www.catalyticdrying.com/pdf/shelf-life-of-dry-roasted-almonds.pdf

Yakster

Effect of edible coating on the aromatic attributes of roasted coffee beans

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554632/

First_Warrior

Just finished One Year After by William Forstchen and starting Mission Critical by Mark Greaney a Grey Man novel.