The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Including koji, kombuchas, shoyus, misos, vinegars, garums, lacto-ferments, and black fruits and vegetables (Foundations of Flavor)
René Redzepi and David Zilber
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
Jordan Ellenberg
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Paul Stamets
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock and Macmillan Audio
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Robert H. Lustig
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild (Elephant Whisperer, 1)
Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Conceptual Physics
Paul Hewitt
4.4 on Amazon
1 HN comments
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Katy Milkman and Angela Duckworth
4.4 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Michio Kaku
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
adt2btonDec 22, 2016
Audiobooks (Audible):
Food: A Cultural Culinary History - The Great Courses (if you've ever searched for 'authentic' food, I strongly, strongly recommend this book. It was one of my favorite listening experiences of the year)
City of Thieves - David Benioff (Wonderful storytelling, I recommend the audio version just for the performance)
The Elephant Whisperer - Lawrence Anthony (Another example of great storytelling, highly recommended)
Little Princes - Conor Grennan (Conor does a good job of teleporting you to another world and capturing the inner spirit of being a child anywhere in the world)
The Inner Game of Tennis - Timothy Gallwey (A great paradigm for practice and improvement)
Books:
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (For some, this will be life changing. ~3 hour read is all)
Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss (I've only read through one time, but I plan to use this as a sort of reference book. I agree true that you'll enjoy 50%, love 20% and never forget 10%, but what falls under each category is different for everyone)
The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (I haven't read any sci-fi in a few years, this was a great reentry to the genre for me)
The Food Lab - J Kenji Lopez-Alt (If you want to know the why as well as the how when you cook, this book is for you)
GrayShadeonOct 4, 2019
> Elephants learn by trial and error what sorts of materials do and do not shock them in their efforts to break through electric fences — and in at least one recorded instance (described in Lawrence Anthony’s The Elephant Whisperer [2009]), followed the buzzing of the fence all the way around to its origin, the generator, which, having been stomped to smithereens, allowed them to untwine the fence and go their merry way.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-hav...