J. Nathan Matias @natematias@social.coop Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

J. Nathan Matias @natematias@social.coop

@FordVersyptLab <3 If you're looking for more reading, I think you would enjoy Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

J. Nathan Matias @natematias@social.coop

The midpoint of my au revoir ride, Chittenango NY, was the birthplace of L. Frank Baum, who is known for 2 things: - The Wizard of Oz - Arguing publicly for the extermination of Native Americans https://t.co/E0eWLvPy9t

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This spring, I've been reading Kim TallBear's book on Native American DNA, which uncovers the many ways in which DNA data, when extracted from communities and re-purposed without oversight, can reinforce ideas of white supremacy in complicated ways https://t.co/TfPi1IWLts

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@timnitGebru 1. History (Just finished Deborah Blum's The Poison Squad) 2. Ongoing relationships/friendships/conversations with people who are in for the long game 3. Views and cute animals on regular adventures outdoors https://t.co/GRDn9F35xE

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@goldman <3 The idea of the genius generalist designer/entrepreneur is one of the first things we discuss in my Cornell class on Tech + Design, since it's central to Norman's classic textbook The Design of Everyday Things https://t.co/OrqTtHNMgA

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How did the US medical industry become so powerful and successful? Because the US had the strongest product safety regulations, in the form of the FDA, according to Daniel Carpenter in his *fascinating* book "Reputation and Power" Blown away by this book. https://t.co/0MQLBjBc9h

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Could humanity's greatest disasters be averted if we could go back in time and change the relationship between faith and science? That's the animating question in Galileo's Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I've just finished https://t.co/eJ4LPRpxye

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One of the books on the top of my shelf is the philosopher Sandra Harding's book on "Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research" @AlwaysAlreadyOn have published a podcast interview with Harding here: https://t.co/ljCbQACtT4

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@Space_Kuma @mattwallaert This is fascinating! I would love to hear more about this. I know John List discusses the diversity + local maximum trap for tech startups in The Voltage Effect, but I've never seen it discussed in respect to partisan affiliation.

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@seanjtaylor Here's Lowe's diagram of Aristotle's Poetics, which is one of the earliest recorded efforts to formalize the idea of a plot —into a theory that combines narrative structure with psychological theories about the individual & combined effects of structure https://t.co/AQB73E0tIu