Books
Books I’m reading now or have finished recently (via Goodreads)
- Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
- Barkskins
- How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
- Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
- The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (The Tales of Chekhov, #3)
- When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
- Uncanny Valley
- The Sellout
- Exhalation
- Zen Guitar
Online
Things I’m reading online or saving to read later (via Feedly by way of Pinboard and RSS)
- [toread] Republican Senators sold off stock after getting closed-door briefings about how bad the coronavirus outbreak was going to be.
- [toread] The Best Movies and Shows on Netflix to Watch While Stuck at Home | Vanity Fair
- [toread] "I don't know anything about it," Trump says about his White House eliminating the pandemic response team
- [toread] What Happened to Jordan Peterson? | The New Republic
- [toread] Justin Bieber Changes review: New album finds the child star growing up, but there are still strings attached.
- [toread] This Is Why the GOP Can’t Have Nice Climate Plans | The New Republic
- [toread] Charles Murray Is Never Going Away | The New Republic
- [toread] Donald Trump’s Triumph and the Case for Escalation - The Atlantic
- [toread] Why Do So Many Posers Play “Offset” Guitars? | Premier Guitar
- [toread] Robert Reich
Listening
I also really, really enjoy listening to podcasts. Here are a few that have caught my attention recently (via Pocket Casts)
- Decoder Ring explores the strange and wacky world of novelty testicle products: Truck Nutz, Bulls Balls, Neuticles, Bike Balls, Gunsticles, and more.
- Postmodernism and Religion | Robert Wright & John D. Caputo [The Wright Show] - YouTube
- Ep. 110 Enspiral: “Better Work Together” – Team Human
- Ep. 114 Geert Lovink on “Sad by Design” – Team Human
- The Biology of Good and Evil: Sam Harris
- Very Bad Wizards Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins
- Your Attention Please, 'PRI: To the Best of Our... - Podcat
- How to Be More Productive - Freakonomics Freakonomics
- Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness | On Being
- Everything on Demand | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE