recently
(musings, updates, and other such words)
- 02 Aug 2024
- 02 Aug 2024 A propagating pod of personal orcas (MM No. 40)
- 02 Jun 2024 Jumping out of planes, 3 miles above the ground (MM No. 39)
- 24 Apr 2024 Acquired — Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
- 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