Overview In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein explains the science behind climate change, the potential environmental catastrophes that will result from a changing climate, and how we can avert a planetary crisis by fundamentally changing our political and economic structure. A quick overview of climate change: it is real, anthropogenic (human-caused), and it has wreaked havoc […]
Month: June 2017
San Francisco Trivia
Overview A Short History of San Francisco, at a little over 100 pages, is indeed short. I too will be brief by listing facts that I found interesting (and that may be useful in a game of trivia). The overarching theme is that San Francisco is a beautiful, adaptable city like no other. I’ve lived […]
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Rank About Being Sick in America
Overview In How We Do Harm, Otis Webb Brawley, MD, the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society, combines decades of anecdotes backed by empirical data to disprove the notion that the American healthcare system is the best in the world. Indeed, we aren’t even close. Most of the […]
The Master and His Emissary
Overview The Master and His Emissary by Dr. Iain McGilchrist is divided into two parts, much like our brains: the first focusing on recent developments in neuroscience research on our brain’s dividedness; the second, on how the West developed as a result of this dividedness. Research shows that the brain’s two hemispheres, while separate, independent, and […]
June
Book 22: A Short History of San Francisco San Francisco is an exciting city. It’s in the heart of Silicon Valley, the most innovative place on the planet; it’s central to the American LGBT+ rights movement; and it’s home to vibrant art, entertainment, and food. I am a San Francisco resident from now until August […]