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I listened to the body on audible in the car and I found myself willing there to be traffic on commutes. I enjoyed I so much that I bought a real copy so I can highlight the interesting bits.Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »PM/Postcard sent. Great PEEHS altogether.
Have recently re-read Bill Bryson's "A Short History" and "The Body" so I'm riding the high of Bill's wacky and arcane research
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Yes. I agree.rainbowtrout wrote: »I love his books too, but the only (minor) criticism I have of this book is that it seems to have been written to a template. X amount of chapters, each about 15 pages long, like it was targeted so people would sit and read a chapter a day, maybe his publishers were targeting a new market of readers or something. Normally when he writes there isn't such a rigid structure and he goes off on all sorts of tangents which are great. It's still a very good book, but I preferred 'A Short History...'
I also thought that some of what was written was a bit biased or skewed towards a particular view. I also thought that a lot of it was quite basic, but then I reminded myself that I have a PhD in biology, which focused on digestion and breast milk, and that I worked as am immunologist for 4 years
I recommended it to some of my more "think outside the box" students and the ones who enjoy biology. I think it could be an amazing resource for TY biology as it skirts the LC syllabus, without going too technical on it, but is also interesting to a layperson (or one who only chose biology in TY because of the way things were banded).0 -
Yes. I agree.
I also thought that some of what was written was a bit biased or skewed towards a particular view. I also thought that a lot of it was quite basic, but then I reminded myself that I have a PhD in biology, which focused on digestion and breast milk, and that I worked as am immunologist for 4 years
I recommended it to some of my more "think outside the box" students and the ones who enjoy biology. I think it could be an amazing resource for TY biology as it skirts the LC syllabus, without going too technical on it, but is also interesting to a layperson (or one who only chose biology in TY because of the way things were banded).
I'd agree with all of that, I'm a science teacher too (no PhD though). He hasn't really presented as much of a biased view in previous books.0 -
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rainbowtrout wrote: »... so people would sit and read a chapter a day...
Yikes, I read it in one sitting My version of binge-watching, I guess.rainbowtrout wrote: »... but I preferred 'A Short History...'
Me too. At risk of derailing your very own thread, the chapter "Getting The Lead Out" is a fascinating insight into industrial chemist Thomas Midgley Jr's ignoble discovery of not only leaded petrol but also Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), arguably the 20th century's worst discoveries.
Shout-out too, to the little-known Clair Patterson, the first person to calculate the definitive age of our planet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson
I love popular science Right, back to PEEHS... 0 -
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davetherave wrote: »In, if it all goes wrong I can blame my leaving cert physics teacher from 13 years ago right?
Of course.... Peehs should be on the Leaving Cert.0 -
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