![]() ![]() ![]() You will fall in love with these characters… and then they will all die and your soul will be crushed forever and ever.There’s even focus on disabilities, mental health… it is pretty fabulous. Diversity FTW! So not only does not matter one bit what ethnicity, race, or sexual orientation someone is, there is a ton of rep of so many different groups on this show.But let’s be clear: the women are in charge here. Now, there are some awesome guys, too, don’t get me wrong. ![]() The women are the best doctors, fighters, engineers, everything. Each one is so damn brave and strong in her own way. The women are like… they are like no other cast of females ever. Then we will talk about this really pretty boxed set that I need in my life. Since today is the premiere of Season 4 of the show, I figured I would tell you a few reasons to watch if you have somehow managed not to already. P.S.- I think these things actually kind of work because now I want the boxed set and will probably buy it so.Īnyway. Welcome to The 100 TV/Book Blitz! I do book blitzes oh you know, never, but when I saw this… well come on guys, it’s THE 100 for goodness sake. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Smithsonian scientists were even pretty sure that the whorl belonged deep in the shark’s throat. Since these early postulations, no one has been able to perfectly position the more than two-foot-wide spiral of knife-like tips. Throughout the early 1900s an American geologist, Charles Rochester Eastman, made the case that it was instead a defense structure on the creature’s back. Russian geologist Alexander Karpinsky discovered the first Helicoprion in 1899 in Russia-he imagined the whorl as a fused-together coil of teeth that curled up over the shark’s snout. The strange tooth “whorl” belonged to the Helicoprion genus, the “buzz sharks” (a moniker Troll introduced in 2012). The bizarre beasts swam Earth’s waters some 270 million years ago, persisting for about 10 million years. ![]() Little did Troll know, this rocky jaw would consume his mind over the next 20 years, just as it had done with scientists before him. In reality, his guide explained, the fossilized spiral was the jaw of an ancient shark. “It was a beautiful whorl… I thought it was a big snail,” he says now, recollecting the moment when he visited the museum for a book he was working on. Paleo-artist Ray Troll’s obsession began way back in 1993, when he spotted what he calls a “strange doorstop” in the basement of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson unblinkingly dismantles Trump's deceptions and the illusions to which his supporters cling, shedding light on the guilty parties who empower and enable Trump in Washington and in the media. ![]() Wilson never holds back." Rick mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history. The Guardian hails Everything Trump Touches Dies, saying it gives, "more unvarnished truths about Donald Trump than anyone else in the American political establishment has offered. In the #1 New York Times bestselling Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson delivers "a searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: 'What the hell is going on?' ( Chicago Tribune). Includes an all-new chapter analyzing Trump's impact on the 2018 elections. ![]() ![]() From Rick Wilson-longtime Republican strategist, political commentator, Daily Beast contributor-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While one sits at the wheel of their diesel Freightliner, the other snoozes in the bunk behind him. In fact, during the past 18 years, the 53-year-old truckers, whose identical beards reach down to their chests, have driven more than three million miles together, hauling everything from diapers to canned soup from places like Seattle, Washington, to Camden, New Jersey. ![]() Like most twins who attend, they enjoy spending time with each other. They come, two by two, for the Twins Days Festival, a three-day marathon of picnics, talent shows, and look-alike contests that has grown into one of the world's largest gatherings of twins.ĭave and Don Wolf of Fenton, Michigan, have been coming to the festival for years. This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.Įvery summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of Cleveland named by identical twin brothers nearly two centuries ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Books Offill read for research incorporate That would be a very bad idea by George Marshall. ![]() ![]() Offill led broad examination about environmental change while composing the novel, starting with climatology, and afterward moving to mental and humanistic texts that arrangement with responses to fiascos and the environment. Offill changed the title from American Climate to Weather conditions to a limited extent to abstain from partaking in a pattern she saw arising after the appointment of Donald Trump of books distributed that remembered the word for their title. Before Offill chose the title Climate, the book had two before titles: Figuring out how to Pass on and, later, American Climate. A New York Times article about Paul Kingsnorth further enlivened both the novel and Offill’s advantage in the environment. The novel outgrew discussions among Offill and author Lydia Millet concerning the possible effects of environmental change. Offill chipped away at Climate for about seven years. of Hypothesis and applause for its construction. The original got for the most part certain audits, with ideal correlations with Offill’s past novel, Dept. The book happens when Donald Trump becomes leader of the US and portrays Lizzie’s day to day life and her interests about environmental change. The novel is described by a school curator, Lizzie. ![]() Weather conditions is a 2020 novel by American essayist Jenny Offill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But for managers who learn to channel brainpower into breakthroughs, the rewards are boundless. Leading people who are smarter than you is no easy task. When employees are exceptional, everyday rules no longer apply. Quit chasing squirrels: Guide innovation towards the core mission.Let the problem seduce: Frame challenges in a way that captures the imagination and draws them toward the goal.Practice alchemy: Mix complementary minds together for maximum effect.Turn over the rocks: Be completely transparent-a genius will figure out what you're hiding anyway.Shut up and listen: Consider their input openly before reaching conclusions.Get out of the way: Allow brilliant people ownership of their projects.Original and insightful, Einstein's Boss explains how to spot the deep thinkers who will transform your business-and reveals 10 rules for guiding them to greatness, including: Under his leadership, IAS became a global powerhouse, home to 33 Nobel Laureates, 38 Field Medalists, and myriad winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes. Abraham Flexner, the institute's founder, wasn't a physicist or mathematician but he was a gifted administrator. Einstein joined the Institute for Advanced Study, bestowing instant credibility on the fledgling research center. In 1933, Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany for the leafy streets of Princeton, NJ. This book filters Flexner's practices through the lens of modern business, where industries from computing to engineering to biotechnology compete for top talent and cutting-edge innovations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I really appreciated this book because it was written about a time period and a place that hasn't received much coverage in children's literature. Her spunkiness and curiosity in the story is the way young readers will make a connection to the history. Her ability to make friends and share stories with both groups s hows the intimacy of relationships on these small plantations, and how racial dividing lines were not as clear cut as the laws required. Sugar makes friends with the son of the white plantation owner and she also develops a friendship with the Chinese men who have come to work at the plantation. In order to supplement the labor force, the plantation owner has brought in several men from China to help cut the sugar cane. Sugar is one of the few children located on a sugar plantation in Mississippi after the Civil War. (Middle-grade reading level - no content concerns) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, our genomes, and our cardiovascular and immune systems its opposite, loneliness, can kill. She finds friendship to be as old as early life on the African savannas-when tribes of people grew large enough for individuals to seek fulfillment of their social needs outside their immediate families. (FAN ’14, ’16) named Friendship one of the best leadership books of 2020.ĭenworth takes us in search of friendship’s biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds? Award-winning science journalist Lydia Denworth’s Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bondis a revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. ![]() Watch the livestream at The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. ![]() ![]() If you have read her graphic novel Smile, then you will recognize Raina, and her siblings Amara and Will. What teenager doesn’t love a road trip in a van with no air conditioning and two younger siblings?!? Raina’s family is driving from California to Colorado for a two week road trip. Want to read it? Click here to place the book on hold! Girls looking for books that have a strong female who isn’t lost because she doesn’t get the boy. I’d give it to fans of Telgemeier’s other books fans of theater and/or Glee. The book is set up in “Acts”, which adds to the theater effect. It was a fast, fun, easy read with strong characters. Why are the guys you like are always taken, gay, acting strange, or just plain not interested? Meanwhile Callie finds herself in the middle of her own middle school boy drama. Callie knows the songs by heart and is determined to create a Broadway worthy set, despite the fact that they are on a middle school budget. ![]() This year the drama department’s production is “Moon Over Mississippi”. ![]() If she isn’t working after school as part of the stage crew, you can find her at the bookstore visiting her favorite book of Broadway stage photographs visiting because she can’t afford to bring it home. Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community.Ĭallie is a self-proclaimed theater geek but while she loves theater, she knows her place is creating the stage not performing on it. ![]() ![]() Since the letters quoted in this book are unedited, the narrative pace occasionally slows, but the author’s reasons become clear once she shows the result of some dastardly editing by Jared Sparks, who was famed for amassing some of the most important documents of the period relating to Franklin and George Washington. Women were taught to read but not to write, so spelling and punctuation are random. ![]() ![]() She was also very lucky in that her brother looked after her needs, eventually giving her a house of her own and providing her with books. “She became a wife, a mother, and a widow… strained to form the letters of her name.” Benjamin’s references to her missives helped Lepore gain at least a partial picture of a little-educated woman who nonetheless showed a great mind capable of deep opinions. “He became a printer, a philosopher, and a statesman,” writes the author. ![]() Of course, it helps that her letters were to her brother, one of the most significant figures of the time period. The first existing letter in her own hand was written when she was 45 years old. Jane Franklin Mecom (1712–1794) did not come into her own until she was widowed in 1765 at the time, widows possessed greater rights than married women. ![]() The Story of America, 2012) masterfully formulates the story of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, who will be virtually unknown to many readers, using only a few of her letters and a small archive of births and deaths. New Yorker writer Lepore (History/Harvard Univ. ![]() |