What brings you trolling back, then?<br /> by [[Colin Richardson]] in The Guardian accessed on 2025-08-15T14:24:32
archival copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103154030/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/17/gayrights.comment
What brings you trolling back, then?<br /> by [[Colin Richardson]] in The Guardian accessed on 2025-08-15T14:24:32
archival copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103154030/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/17/gayrights.comment
created: 2026-01-24T11:50:31 (UTC -08:00) tags: [] source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/281488/number-of-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/ author:
UK annual number of deaths 202<br /> by [[Statista]]<br /> accessed on 2026-01-24T11:50:31
The Gospel of Wealth<br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth
E-books are expensive for libraries. Some states are trying to change that<br /> by [[Clare McGrane]] for NPR<br /> accessed on 2026-01-03T19:44:28
“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.
Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?
CommonLit is made for teachers, by teachers. It has everything you need to drive student growth—at a fraction of the cost.<br /> https://www.commonlit.org/
Why private equity is buying businesses in the skilled trades<br /> by [[by Kai Ryssdal]], [[Sean McHenry]], and [[Sofia Terenzio]] for Marketplace<br /> accessed on 2025-11-30T09:36:04
Hao, Karen. 2025. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. 1st ed. New York: Penguin Press. https://amzn.to/4o92MBs.
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History<br /> by [[American Experience]] on PBS<br /> accessed on 2025-11-08T09:13:39
How to make the best possible translation of a book? | Derek Sivers<br /> by [[Derek Sivers]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:19:44
Lanier, Jaron. 2006. “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism.” Edge.org. https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-the-new-online-collectivism (October 11, 2025).
Hart, Keith, Jean-Louis Laville, and Antonio David Cattani, eds. 2010. The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide. 1st ed. Malden, MA; Cambridge, UK: Polity. https://amzn.to/4q7hwTi (October 11, 2025).
Annotations: urn:x-pdf:c0c4b707a9de803a95b50ebebe19c70c
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mentioned by ES @ DABC<br /> Five books recommended by experts in particular areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training <br /> Erhard Seminars Training aka est, Est, and EST
Swan Song<br /> https://vimeo.com/665734692
mentioned by TVW
Sharlet, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Harper, 2008, https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/B001Q3KM4O/.
The Family (TV Miniseries, 2019, Netflix) 5 episodes<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10715148/
Lynch, David J. The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong. PublicAffairs, 2025. https://amzn.to/46sSxRh
Suggested by PM
https://www.sefaria.org/topics/ben-sorer-umoreh?sort=Relevance&tab=notable-sources The Ben Sorer Umoreh — known in English as the“wayward and rebellious son”
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America<br /> by [[Ava Kofman]] in The New Yorker<br /> accessed on 2025-09-15T13:54:05
Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion<br /> by [[Zoë Bernard]] in Vanity Fair accessed on 2025-09-13T09:18:21
They had parties, we got the hangover<br /> by [[Ruth Sunderland]] for The Guardian<br /> accessed on 2025-09-06T12:17:48
Gignac, Gilles E. “The Number of Exceptional People: Fewer than 85 per 1 Million across Key Traits.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 234, Feb. 2025, p. 112955. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112955.
Tett, Gillian. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. Simon and Schuster, 2021. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anthro_Vision/p_kDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
What Isn't Abundance?<br /> by [[Dave Karpf]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-06T08:42:21
https://davekarpf.substack.com/<br /> Dave Karpf
Wilson, Georgina. Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/.
Related to the idea of paper helping, as a technology, create modernity.
See also Roland Allen's The Notebook (2023)
Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
via: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188_W16/Reprints/Response_to_BillJoy.pdf
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A reprint of: <br /> - “Re-Engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy and the doom-and-gloom technofuturists,” The Industry Standard, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 24 April 2000, p.196. - “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists,” AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.
Cross reference: Bill Joy's paper and notes at urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0
Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired, April 1, 2000. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/.
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Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
OBC28 4<br /> by [[Dan Allosso]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-23T18:00:08
Last session for The Notebook by Rolan Allen
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/notebook-book-club-meeting-4
https://www.marginnote.com/<br /> Note taking application with audio recording
https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/4-types-of-power/#comment-122967
Given your area, if you haven't found it yet, you might appreciate going a generation further back in your references with: Mary P. Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, ed. by E. M. Fox and L. Urwick (London: Pitman Publishing, 1940). She had some interesting work in organization theory you might appreciate. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett#Organizational_theory
Lanier, J. (2013). Who Owns the Future? Simon & Schuster. https://amzn.to/3YzotPZ
Things I Never Knew about my Father by Lisa Jardine<br /> https://soundcloud.com/conwayhall/things-i-never-knew-about-my
See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20141216103656/http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/lisa-jardine
Gramsci′s Common Sense<br /> by [[Kate Crehan]]
THE SEX DIARIES OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES<br /> by [[Evan Zimroth]] in More Intelligent Life accessed on 2025-08-15T12:20:39
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results by [[Athena Chapekis]] and [[Anna Lieb]]
Gutting Book Basics by [[Thomas Vander Wal]]
Allen, Roland. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. United Kingdom: Profile Books, 2023. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-rolad-allen/6331084.
Keeping Notebooks Could Change Your Life by [[John Dickerson]]
Opinion: This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education by [[Jennifer Frey]] 2025-07-17 in New York Times
Frey argues that it's college administrators who are killing off the idea of a liberal arts education. In her experience, students are thrilled to be in these programs and participate in them.
Me: Some of the pressure, also indicated here, is from toxic capitalism which is pressuring students to be only career-focused in their educational journeys. This pressure leaves much less space for the humanities.
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https://fieldnotesbrand.com/from-seed
Some interesting history of notebooks in America.
China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future by [[David Gelles]], [[Somini Sengupta]], [[Keith Bradsher]], [[Brad Plumer]], [[Harry Stevens]]
Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition. Edited by Bruce Caldwell. 1944. Reprint, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]
Ref. by PM
Chatto, Beth, and Christopher Lloyd. Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening. London, North Pomfret, VT: Frances Lincoln, 1998. https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Friend-Gardener-Letters-Gardening/dp/0711212279
Recommended by TB
Plutocrats Meeting #5 by [[Dan Allosso]]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batya_Ungar-Sargon
dumbing down of rhetoric on the left versus the right (source?)
The Californian Ideology by [[Richard Barbrook]], and [[Andy Cameron]] on 1 September 1995
Ronald P. Formisano
https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/ronald-p-formisano-1939-2024/
Freeland, Chrystia. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Penguin, 2012. https://amzn.to/4krZmJ5.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8OsnMuHiD8W6nxxq-1t7lVZ4V2FSXnOT
Suggested by PM at DABC
https://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-Rise-Global-Super-Rich-Everyone/dp/1594204098 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
ᔥ Patrick 9:32 AM This Video Will Change Your View of CHINA! (no more lies)
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Las castas. Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. 1st ed. 2020. Reprint, New York: Random House, 2023. https://amzn.to/40KnGyB.
Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? by [[Ian Leslie]]
suggested by ES
Fits into an earlier theory about insane leaders... where's the source?
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex
Here's the reference for TB, from our discussion
mention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)?
This was mentioned to me at an IndieWebCamp event today.
Seems interesting with respect to the meta portions of books.
Looks like the sort of thing that @remikalir and @anterobot may be interested in.
Graeber, David, and Rebecca Solnit. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays. Edited by Nika Dubrovsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. https://amzn.to/3O5S6DF.
President-elect Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Here are the rights he is set to lose by [[The Associated Press]]
Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by [[Zoë Schlanger]]
Lots of links to journal articles and published studies here.
Collaboration for Obsidian – Sync, Share, and Edit anywhere

Billboard that reads:
We did not come to Britain,<br /> Britain came to us.
Black History Addendum by @gregbunbury for @blackoutdoorart
Poverty, by America Book Club DiscussionQuestions
Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
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How to Spot Emerging Note Clusters Without Alphanumeric Note Numbering? by [[Ton Zijlstra]] in Interdependent Thoughts
I recall Bob Doto had a video at some point in which he used the local graph to show relationships to find bunches of notes for potentially writing pieces or articles as indicated in Tons' article.
One of the biggest issues with digital note taking tools is that they don't make it easy to see and identify chains of notes which might make for articles, chapters, or books.
Surely there must be some way to calculate neighborhoods of notes from a topological perspective? Perhaps if one imposed a measure on the space to create relative distances of notes?
https://notebooklm.google/
Indent with Intent: Fundamentals of Roam Research by [[R. J. Nestor]]
Doto, Bob. A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer. 1st ed. New Old Traditions, 2024. https://amzn.to/3ztjrfb.
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Windigo Norval Morrisseau, Windigo, tempera on brown paper, ca. 1963.(courtesy Glenbow Museum/64.37.9)
via The Canadian Encyclopedia<br /> https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/windigo
https://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire
Peshtigo fire occurred the same day as the Great Chicago fire on October 8, 1871. Less well known likely in part due to communication ability at the time.
tamal (singular) or tamale from Nahuatl tamalii<br /> tamaladas - tamale making events/parties<br /> tamaleras - people who make tamales
flour - masa harina<br /> masa preparada - ready made dough<br /> slaked lime (aka "cal")
alternate names for customized tamal: pasteles, hallacas, humitas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forest_inequity
urban forest inequity
Mentions of humans thinning trees for better tree canopy in the section on black ash trees in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
https://www.amazon.com/First-Knowledges-Law-Way-Ancestors-ebook/dp/B0C1M8B4HQ
Law: The Way of the Ancestors
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition by Jerome Rothenberg
Recommended by Eric Sinclair
Louis Vieux Elm intentionally set on fire by [[The Mercury]]
This photo of the Louis Vieux Elm Tree was taken by Willard Balderson, Wamego, in 1986. The tree stood 90 feet high with a crown spread of 104 feet, and a trunk circumference of 317 inches. For several years the Louis Vieux Elm Tree held the title of U.S. Champion. The estimated age of the elm tree was 300 years and since 1986 succumbed to age, weather, and disease leaving only a stump. In 2011, even the stump, which the Pottawatomie County Historical Society attempted to save, protect and shelter, was burned down, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes.

via https://pob.tauycreek.com/post/35426971069/this-photo-of-the-louis-vieux-elm-tree-was-taken
https://libguides.marist.edu/c.php?g=1314310&p=9677364

Artwork mentioned by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass.
In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli.
DTFH 620 Eric Weinstein by [[Duncal Trussell Family Hour]]
If you put in all physics data up to 1904, would an AI ever be able to have come up with anything from Einstein's annus mirabilis? I suspect not, at least right now.
https://newsela.com/ - a source for current events that offer the same stories at different levels. One argument is that a teacher with a wide variety of students could assign the same story so all could read via Mark Grabe @ DABC
Aliens in the plot "hide between saccades".
We can equate this to the way politicians actively treat their constituents when they play the hypocratic game of "do as I say not as I do".
Referenced by Tim
They Live (1988)<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum by Dana Goldstein
Not much talk of potentially splitting out methods for neurodivergent learners here. Teaching reading strategies may net out dramatically differently between neurotypical children and those with issues like dyslexia. Perceptual and processing issues may make some methods dramatically harder for some learners over others, and we still don't seem to have any respect for that.
This example is an interesting one of the sort of generational die out of old ideas and adoption of new ones as seen in Kuhn's scientific revolutions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_(novel)
any relationship to George MacDonald??
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons.
A ‘Science of Reading’ Revolt Takes on the Education Establishment by [[Sarah Mervosh]]
Yurcaba, Jo. “Alabama Library Flagged a Children’s Book Because the Author’s Last Name Is ‘Gay.’” NBC News, October 10, 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/alabama-library-flagged-childrens-book-authors-last-name-gay-rcna119747.
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/science-of-reading-meeting-1<br /> Science of Reading, Meeting 1
Lacy, Tim. The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. https://amzn.to/3R2rCox.
¹¹ For you al-ways have the poor with you, but you will notalways have me.
Said in the context of his pending crucifixion, with respect to a woman who had poured expensive ointment on Jesus.
This is an interesting proposition in this passage with respect to lots of what he'd said about the poor in the past. See also the Beatitudes
relationship to the idea of "Waging war on poverty, but not on the poor"?
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire by [[Jason Del Rey]]
Like Cuckoos, Capitalism Had to Push All Other Ways of Living Out of the Nest<br /> https://app.thebrain.com/brain/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/9aeb5260-87fb-4f0d-94ae-b2656c9d84bb
Left Behind by [[Nancy Isenberg]]
This is of interest because Isenberg's White Trash came out in January 2016 just a five months before Vance's Hillbilly Elegy was released. As a result she didn't get to reference it in her book.
Back to YouTube by [[Dan Allosso]]
Earl Hamner Jr. Comes Home by [[Mike Boehm]] for the Los Angeles Times
DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, blames liberal activist who wanted Bible out of schools by [[Brendan Farrington]]
A tour in the United States of America : containing an account of the present situation of that country ... by Stuart, John Ferdinand Smyth, 1745-1814
https://archive.org/details/tourinunitedstat00stua_0/page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/williambyrdshist00byrd/mode/2up<br /> William Byrd's histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina by Byrd, William, 1674-1744; Boyd, William Kenneth, 1879-1938; North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History
MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY. BY JOHN WINTHROP ESQ. https://archive.org/details/collectionsmass03unkngoog/page/n34/mode/2up?q=winthrop
https://archive.org/details/adiscourseconce00deangoog/page/n8/mode/2up A discourse concerning western planting by Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616; Woods, Leonard, 1807-1878; Deane, Charles, 1813-1889
Locke, John. The fundamental constitutions of Carolina, ... 1682, 1682. http://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-fundamental-constitu_locke-john_1682.
Donne, John. A Sermon Vpon the Eighth Verse of the First Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles: Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13. Nouemb. 1622. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London. 1622. Reprint, London: printed [by Bernard Alsop] for Thomas Iones, 1624. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A73849.0001.001?view=toc.
Child, Sir Josiah. A new discourse of trade, ... 1693, 1693. http://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-new-discourse-of-trade_child-sir-josiah_1693.
John Gast, American Progress, 1872<br /> https://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/john-gast-american-progress-1872/

Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. 1st ed. New York, New York: Viking, 2016.
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Dames, Nicholas. The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton University Press, 2023. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691135199/the-chapter.
Suggested by Eric Sinclair in Dan Allosso Book Club
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (face rubbed), in mitre and red cope, with crosier, seated on left speaks to a seated group of five people, mostly women. Tree on right; large bird with long beak at top.
image of MS 522 f1r Lambeth Palace Library

Close up of inset image via link

Book and images mentioned in Chapter 2 of @Duncan2022 Index, A History of the
https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/work_4353
Manuscript copies of Chasteau d'amour (The Castle of Love) by Robert Grosseteste (1175? - 1253) in the Oxford Libraries.
No copies available digitally as of 2024-02-16
h/t Eric Sinclair, whose wife went to Indiana University
https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Democratic-Culture-Mortimer-Intellectual/dp/0230337465
The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) by Tim Lacy
Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Harvard University Press, 1977. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1smjvd6.
The intellectual dark web (IDW) is a term used to describe some commentators who oppose identity politics, political correctness, and cancel culture in higher education and the news media within Western countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
“The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice runs thus:<br /> At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.<br /> Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.<br /> Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.”<br /> ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms (1993)
Wanted to join Dan Allosso Book Club at Graeber's Debt.
Doleac, Jennifer. “New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime.” Brookings (blog), June 1, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/.
A brief meta analysis of the evidence provided by three different studies on the effects of lead exposure to children and the increased incidence of their potential adult criminal behavior.
Compare this with the levels of insanity induced in TEL production discussed in https://doi.org/10.1179/oeh.2005.11.4.384 (or alternately at https://environmentalhistory.org/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/) via https://hypothes.is/a/7MBWvHW7Ee6a8dvvDy9Aqw
Kovarik, William. “Ethyl-Leaded Gasoline: How a Classic Occupational Disease Became an International Public Health Disaster.” International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 11, no. 4 (2005): 384–97. https://doi.org/10.1179/oeh.2005.11.4.384.
Samizdat version: https://environmentalhistory.org/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/
Environmental Impact of WW1 by NHC Education Programs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lucJElPVYOk
"Iron Eyes" Cody (1904–1999)[79][80] – Born as Espera Oscar de Corti, and came to be known as "The Crying Indian". An Italian-American actor most well known for his appearance in a 1970's anti-littering commercial. Cody pretended to be from various tribes and denied his Italian heritage for the rest of his life.
Part I: Inventors
I've come to think that the purpose of part 1 of the book is part rhetorical device (ethos). David Lipsky is using it to build up some credibility as a writer. He's covering topics that many are likely somewhat knowledgeable about, but is adding some additional color, details, and information which most surely don't know. This has the effect of showing the depths to which he's researched the topics to be able to weave them into such a story.
This will tend to pay off as he begins addressing the potentially more contentious (for some) material in the climate crisis section.
https://www.theparrotandtheigloo.com/
The endnotes missing from the book.
Boroditsky, Lera. How Language Shapes the Way We Think. Streaming Video. TED | TEDWomen 2017, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think.