What are you reading?

I've grown many varieties of N. rustica over the years but never N. quadrivalvis. This article gave me reason to hunt down seeds and I found some here: https://klamathsiskiyouseeds.com/product/nicotiana-quadrivalvis-indian-tobacco/

Here's the article:
https://www.newswise.com/articles/study-looks-at-smoking-in-pre-colonization-north-america?sc=dwhn

Blue Jacket (Shawnee war chief) was also a white man adopted by Shawnee at 17. by Alan Eckert.

https://psyche.co/ideas/lessons-against-self-love-from-the-forgotten-francois-fenelon

"Death came for Fénelon at age 63, in 1715 – the same year it came for the Sun King, with whose life Fénelon’s was inextricably tied. And herein lies his first claim to our attention today. Fénelon spent his political life organising and leading the resistance to Louis XIV. As is immediately evident to every tourist who visits the Palace of Versailles, Louis was a man with unbounded love for himself. Versailles remains a monument to his immense vanity and self-obsession, and his approach to political rule was determined by the same love of grandeur and glory that led him to build his palace. Scholars today often use the term ‘absolutist’ to describe this approach, in which the king, ruling in the belief that he governs by divine right, does all he can to ensure he always stands at the centre of all things. The approach is captured well by the most famous (albeit likely apocryphal) line associated with Louis: L’état, c’est moi – ‘I am the State.’"

Yes he was. But he also ended up proving that mixing religion with politics rarely leads to peace.

Kevin Beresford has spent 17 years as Redditch's resident roundabout spotter and has travelled the country looking for junction perfection - and now his Roundabout Appreciation Society has unveiled their number one for 2020

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/britains-dullest-man-unveils-international-22707142

"Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity" (Much larger book if wrote/written today)
KINDLE-Amazon (Does that count as reading?)

@Amos_Umwhat said:

@jd50ae said:
"Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity" (Much larger book if wrote today)
KINDLE-Amazon (Does that count as reading?)

Is this for real?

Or, are you just checking to see if we're stupid enough to believe it?

Find anyone we know?

Seems like it would be a long read.

It is not all that recent a book, can't imagine how long it would be today. And I don't think liberals and democrats were so obvious at the time.

"Atlantis Found" by Clive Cussler, one of his earlier ones I missed.

When Invasive Species Become the Meal
Is dining on nature’s predators an act of environmentalism — or just a new way for humans to bend the world to our will?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/t-magazine/eating-invasive-species.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20201005&instance_id=22811&nl=the-morning&regi_id=105721522&section_index=4&section_name=play_watch_eat_gnocchi&segment_id=39842&te=1&user_id=8819bc1e4b52dc0d18b841fe0867571c

@silvermouse said:
origin of mass in our universe:

Extremely rare Higgs boson decay process spotted
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-extremely-rare-higgs-boson.html

When a flock of angels dance on the head of a pin, what angelic do they dance to?

Physics has gone gossamer loony one tenuous conjecture after another.

You had me at Newton.

WHAT A SHAMAN SEES IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/shaman-sees-mental-hospital/

"“The Western culture has consistently ignored the birth of the healer,” states Dr. Somé. “Consequently, there will be a tendency from the other world to keep trying as many people as possible in an attempt to get somebody’s attention. They have to try harder.” The spirits are drawn to people whose senses have not been anesthetized. “The sensitivity is pretty much read as an invitation to come in,” he notes.

"Those who develop so-called mental disorders are those who are sensitive, which is viewed in Western culture as oversensitivity. Indigenous cultures don’t see it that way and, as a result, sensitive people don’t experience themselves as overly sensitive. In the West, “it is the overload of the culture they’re in that is just wrecking them,” observes Dr. Somé. The frenetic pace, the bombardment of the senses, and the violent energy that characterize Western culture can overwhelm sensitive people."

@webmost said:

The Western culture has consistently ignored the birth of the healer...

All well and good until someone eats the village albino to cure leprosy.

That works? Sweet!

"The Great Alone" by Kristin Hannah.