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Reliving history through the eyes of a young idealist.

Fascinating... flipping between diseases of the past and those of the present and how they are related. Side trips into parasites and their manipulation of their hosts (why pregnant ladies should not clean the litter box, but let someone else in the house do it)... and I'm only about halfway through it.

Crocs and dinos and birds and bats... oh, my! Sea otters and star-faced moles and world where touch substitutes for sight! That was the most recent chapter. Onward to surface vibrations.

It all takes place inside a therapist's office... episodic by visit.

Very disheartening section on voter suppression, and I can just hear in my head the counter-arguments. Now into the "afterward" added in 2017 to go with the paperback edition, on after the election imagining.

Done with the chapter on the infared sensing... kind of the other end of the spectrum from the ultraviolet... and on to contact sensing!

Well into the part that falls in my lifetime and about which I was mostly clueless, "growing up white". Uncomfortable as this reading might be, I figured I would honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s day by making progress.

Finished the chapter on pain. On to temperature sensing!

Finished the chapter on Burning Brown to the Ground. It was troubling in that all of this was within my own lifetime, but growing up white in middle America I was clueless. Next up, the Civil Rights Movement, which is once more within my lifetime.

We have moved into the "Quantum Leap" section of the book. (Theorizing that time travel within one's own lifetime... i.e. we have entered into years in which I was alive, with the chapter on Brown Vs Board of Education, and the fallout that followed this Supreme Court decision.

Done with "Feast." Onward to Repeat.

This author debunks the idea that any one diet is the best for EVERYONE, and encouraged intermittent fasters to find what works for us as individuals. Some research as recent as 2020 is cited.

Finished the text portion on color vision, now there is a photo section before starting in on a chapter about pain.

I started reading this one after seeing a quote from it in White Fragility.

What I am finding is that White Fragility is a self-examination approach for white readers.

White Rage is history which many of us who grew up white in America were never exposed to unless we went looking for it.

I have finished the chapters on reconstruction, and the great migration. About to start on Brown v Board of Ed.

Finished with the Fast section. Ready to start on the Feast section.