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(musings, updates, and other such words)

• 09 Jan 2024  
• 09 Jan 2024   The future is now (MM No. 38)
• 11 Dec 2023   Send me your Spotify Wrapped! (MM No. 37)
• 12 Oct 2023   Some thoughts on the world (MM No. 36)
• 28 Aug 2023   Glaciers and grizzlies (MM No. 35)
• 17 Jul 2023   6.5 hours on public transit (MM No. 34)
• 28 Jun 2023   Sorta surfing and, simultaneously, SARS-CoV-2 (MM No. 33)
• 29 May 2023   May update (MM No. 32)
• 02 May 2023   Ankle-deep in swamp mud (MM No. 31)
• 15 Apr 2023   Smile-inducing, gratitude-provoking, and otherwise noteworthy moments
• 12 Apr 2023   It's been awhile, episode 2 (MM No. 30)
• 12 Aug 2022   It's been awhile! (MM No. 29)
• 03 May 2022   April 2022 reading update (MM No. 28)
• 29 Apr 2022   Full Spectrum - Adam Rogers
• 17 Apr 2022   Mid-year semi-resolutions (MM No. 27)
• 03 Apr 2022   On Kindness - Adam Phillips & Barbara Taylor
• 01 Apr 2022   March 2022 reading update (MM No. 26)
• 14 Mar 2022   Happy Pi Day! (MM No. 25)
• 11 Mar 2022   Under the Sky We Make - Kimberly Nicholas
• 28 Feb 2022   February 2022 reading update (MM No. 24)
• 19 Feb 2022   Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
• 14 Feb 2022   Happy Valentine's Day! (MM No. 23)
• 12 Feb 2022   The World-Ending Fire - Wendell Berry, selected by Paul Kingnorth
• 02 Feb 2022   Desert Notebooks - Ben Ehrenreich
• 01 Feb 2022   January 2022 reading updates (MM No. 22)
• 21 Jan 2022   Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit
• 20 Jan 2022   The First Cell - Azra Raza
• 13 Jan 2022   Welcome to 2022! (MM No. 21)
• 05 Jan 2022   Work - James Suzman
• 30 Dec 2021   Goodbye, twenty-twenty-one (MM No. 20)
• 18 Dec 2021   Planet Palm - Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
• 03 Dec 2021   The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber and David Wengrow
• 03 Dec 2021   Everything and More - David Foster Wallace
• 12 Nov 2021   The End of the Myth - Greg Grandin
• 31 Oct 2021   October 2021 reading update (MM No. 18)
• 26 Oct 2021   Atlas of AI - Kate Crawford
• 15 Oct 2021   Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard
• 15 Oct 2021   Eleven learnable links (MM No. 17)
• 12 Oct 2021   Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
• 01 Oct 2021   This Is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan
• 01 Oct 2021   September 2021 reading update (MM No. 16)
• 26 Sep 2021   A World on the Wing - Scott Weidensaul
• 13 Sep 2021   Need something to smile about? (No. 15)
• 09 Sep 2021   On Time and Water - Andri Snær Magnason
• 01 Sep 2021   August 2021 reading update (MM No. 14)
• 26 Aug 2021   Between Two Kingdoms - Suleika Jaouad
• 20 Aug 2021   The Hospital - Brian Alexander
• 16 Aug 2021   Maya's non-random sampling of the recent Internet (No. 13)
• 05 Aug 2021   Funny Weather - Olivia Laing
• 01 Aug 2021   July 2021 reading update (MM No. 12)
• 29 Jul 2021   Wonderworks - Angus Fletcher
• 29 Jul 2021   Four Lost Cities - Annalee Lewitz
• 19 Jul 2021   Recent things that made me muse (MM No. 11)
• 17 Jul 2021   Breath - James Nestor
• 13 Jul 2021   Living in Data - Jer Thorp
• 12 Jul 2021   The Science of Can and Can't - Chaira Marletto
• 12 Jul 2021   Discovered while not drowning (MM No. 10)
• 07 Jul 2021   The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
• 05 Jul 2021   The Anthropology of Turquoise - Ellen Meloy
• 02 Jul 2021   Beginners - Tom Vanderbilt
• 25 Jun 2021   High Conflict - Amanda Ripley
• 24 Jun 2021   Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta
• 21 Jun 2021   Madness, Rack, and Honey - Mary Ruefle
• 18 Jun 2021   The Scout Mindset - Julia Galef
• 13 Jun 2021   10 things that made me pause (MM No. 8)
• 11 Jun 2021   Subtract - Leidy Klotz
• 09 Jun 2021   The Empathy Diaries - Sherry Turkle
• 06 Jun 2021   Mission Economy - Mariana Mazzucato
• 06 Jun 2021   Beloved Beasts - Michelle Nijhuis
• 02 Jun 2021   The Bird Way - Jennifer Ackerman
• 01 Jun 2021   May 2021 reading update (MM No. 7)
• 28 May 2021   Having and Being Had - Eula Bliss
• 24 May 2021   Nose Dive - Harold McGee
• 23 May 2021   The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
• 19 May 2021   To Be Honest - Michael Leviton
• 19 May 2021   Links, links, links! (MM No. 6)
• 16 May 2021   Can't Even - Anne Helen Petersen
• 13 May 2021   The Age of Wood - Roland Ennos
• 11 May 2021   Strange Harvests - Edward Posnett
• 11 May 2021   I saw this cool thing the other day... (MM No.5)
• 05 May 2021   The Biggest Bluff
• 01 May 2021   April 2020 reading update (MM No.4)
• 30 Apr 2021   Life’s Edge - Carl Zimmer
• 27 Apr 2021   Billionaire Wilderness - Justin Farrell
• 23 Apr 2021   The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson
• 20 Apr 2021   Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
• 19 Apr 2021   Of Wolves and Men - Barry Lopez
• 14 Apr 2021   Good Reasons for Bad Feelings - Randolph M. Nesse
• 14 Apr 2021   A mid-month countdown (MM No.3)
• 09 Apr 2021   Think Again - Adam Grant
• 07 Apr 2021   Animal, Vegetable, Junk - Mark Bittman
• 05 Apr 2021   The Book Collectors - Delphine Minoui
• 03 Apr 2021   Deep - James Nestor
• 03 Apr 2021   After Geoengineering - Holly Jean Buck
• 01 Apr 2021   Drug Use for Grown-Ups - Carl T. Hart
• 01 Apr 2021   March 2021 reading update (MM No.2)
• 28 Mar 2021   A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough
• 27 Mar 2021   Conditional Citizens - Laila Lalami
• 25 Mar 2021   The World - Richard Haas
• 23 Mar 2021   An Inventory of Losses - Judith Schanlansky, transl. by Jackie Smith
• 22 Mar 2021   On beginnings & ends (MM No.1)
• 20 Mar 2021   Chatter - Ethan Kross
• 17 Mar 2021   Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
• 16 Mar 2021   Under the White Sky - Elizabeth Kolbert
• 13 Mar 2021   How Do We Look - Mary Beard
• 09 Mar 2021   In Love with the World - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• 07 Mar 2021   The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• 04 Mar 2021   Women & Power - Mary Beard
• 04 Mar 2021   Land - Simon Winchester
• 28 Feb 2021   February 2021 Update
• 27 Feb 2021   The Night of the Gun - David Carr
• 23 Feb 2021   How To Be an Artist - Jerry Saltz
• 22 Feb 2021   Coffeeland - Augustine Sedgewick
• 19 Feb 2021   Superman’s Not Coming - Erin Brockovich
• 18 Feb 2021   The Motivation Code - Todd Henry
• 17 Feb 2021   Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebecca Solnit
• 11 Feb 2021   Life in Code - Ellen Ullman
• 11 Feb 2021   A Terrible Thing to Waste - Harriet A. Washington
• 01 Feb 2021   Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller
• 30 Jan 2021   Fire in Paradise - Alastair Gee
• 30 Jan 2021   January 2021 Update
• 24 Jan 2021   The Reason for Flowers - Stephen L. Buchmann
• 20 Jan 2021   Proof - Adam Rogers
• 31 Dec 2020   Intentions for the New Year
• 20 Nov 2020   My values
• 20 Nov 2020   November 2020
• 20 Nov 2020   2020 Books
• 30 Jun 2020   June 2020
• 13 Jun 2020   What a Fish Knows - Jonathan Balcombe
• 05 Jun 2020   The Body - Bill Bryson
• 01 May 2020   May 2020
• 01 Apr 2020   March 2020
• 08 Mar 2020   Inconspicuous Consumption — Tatiana Schlossberg
• 02 Mar 2020   Horizon - Barry Lopez
• 01 Mar 2020   February 2020
• 28 Feb 2020   Kochland - Christopher Leonard
• 01 Feb 2020   January 2020
• 05 Jan 2020   Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
• 24 Dec 2019   2019 in Books
• 23 Dec 2019   What a Year!
• 16 Aug 2019   Brought to you by the Public Libraries of Cincinnati
• 27 May 2019   “I read this cool thing the other day...”
• 30 Apr 2019   Being a person: oxygen, “work,” and human exceptionalism
• 30 Mar 2019   What we think about when we think about climate change