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“Cows and other livestock also have a somnolent air because their gaze is so fixed. They rarely turn to look at you in the way another human (or a jumping spider) might. But they also don’t need to. Their visual fields wrap almost all the way around their heads and their acute zones are horizontal stripes, giving them a view of the entire horizon at once. The same”
― An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
― An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“sign of things to come, radioactive particles were detected over San Francisco a few days later, and after that over Paris, bringing this “fallout” threat to wide public attention for the first time. Also endangered were the forty thousand U.S. sailors and soldiers who had been crowded cavalierly nearby, or who mounted the ships later to inspect or clean them—with safety guidelines widely ignored—and were exposed to troubling levels of radiation.”
― The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
― The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Irma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Irma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
390 books
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87 friends
0 books
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1 book
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119 friends
1 book
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127 friends
0 books
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23 friends
0 books
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158 friends
95 books
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31 friends
5 books
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209 friends
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