Laurie Garrett Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Laurie Garrett

@gregggonsalves A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Jamaica. Bob Marley. Dubious American CIA agents. Class divides among Jamaicans. Ghosts. Afterlife. or The Sellout by Paul Beatty. In LA, hilarious take on racism & so much more, can't fit in a Tweet. Both books won Booker Prize.

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James Lovelock espoused the Gaia Hypothesis🌏 -- the notion that all of Earth's systems interact as a single living being. He also warned in clear terms of the dangers humanity posed to this web of systems that "make Earth uniquely alive in our universe." https://t.co/xylcAC6Lae

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It's 120 F. "The maximum body temp a human can survive is 108.14°F. At higher temperatures the body turns into scrambled eggs: proteins are denatured and the brain gets damaged irreparably." Read Chap1 of "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson. https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136/ref=asc_df_0316300136/ https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1521368083750961153

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@gregggonsalves A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Jamaica. Bob Marley. Dubious American CIA agents. Class divides among Jamaicans. Ghosts. Afterlife. or The Sellout by Paul Beatty. In LA, hilarious take on racism & so much more, can't fit in a Tweet. Both books won Booker Prize.

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It's actually far worse than in the @NPR story. In his book, Double Helix, James Watson describes as a "necessary evil" his lab break-in & theft of Franklin's X-rays. And then justifies it as necessary because she was "uncooperative" should wear make-up. https://t.co/9YTuf9kpKz https://t.co/eAxWuKGiNL

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China has responded to its latest series of #COVID19 outbreaks w/the toughest lockdowns and crackdowns in the world, but still, #DeltaVariant is spreading province by province. https://t.co/zKAkjPJFD0 & https://t.co/0QoFQqsCgo & https://t.co/BNLMseQn8C & https://t.co/BXBtcgQQ6N https://t.co/y03Zzgh92H

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@yslexdia Let's hear it for all you Stephen Jay Gould fans -- #SARSCoV2 is proving his once wildly controversial theory of punctuated equilibrium was spot-on for microbes.

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David's @DavidQuammen new book, "Breathless," should be on your list. This excellent interview will entice you: https://t.co/oqYoE5zpcM

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John Vaillant "We built a volcano & then threw Alberta in. We can’t call these supercharged wildfire seasons our ‘new normal.’ ...we changed the Earth’s #climate . This is fire weather for a new planet. A planet we have made." https://t.co/XSXEE3SwWI

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The top-selling #COVID19 #pandemic book, so far, is Michael Lewis' "The Premonition," which basically asserts that a tiny handful of American heroes saw the pandemic coming, while everybody else sucked their thumbs. Here, Yale's @gregggonsalves tears the book apart. https://t.co/PkxTnHNQHp