When I was younger (before the internet/web was widely available to non-technical parents) I read a lot of books and really enjoyed reading. I still enjoy reading but find I've less time these days to sit down and spend time on longer prose (no real excuse, I'm just busy climbing, tinkering with computers or worse still actually working).

I keep a record of the books I've got (and for the most part read) here (used to keep it privately on an App until its development was abandoned and it no longer worked with automatically getting details from Amazon and it became tedious to enter everything by hand ). I rarely write my thoughts on books but occasionally add them here if I can be bothered.

The book that properly got me interested in science, and in particular evolutionary biology. An excellent synthesis of neo-Darwinism where the unit of selection the evolution acts on is the gene.

Read this a long time ago a few years after Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. Its a wonderful exposition of the power of evolution by natural selection extended to the realms of the human brain and consciousness.

A recent interview with Dennett : Our Brains, Our Selves | Tufts Now

• How to Make The World Add Up by Tim Harford very enjoyable read.
• The Art of Statistics by David Speigelhalter (see also GitHub - dspiegel29/ArtofStatistics: Code for 'The Art of Statistics') excellent read.

• Revelations Jerry Moffatt
• Statement Ben Moon
• Echoes Nick Bullock
• Learning to Breathe Nick Bullock
• The Totem Pole Paul Pritchard

Found this tough going, seemingly irreverent discourses into anthropology, native-American societies/philosophy and the Quality of Meta-Physics seemed to get in the way of telling the story.

Excellent, very readable.

An interesting character, DMT, evolution, society, Gaia, shamanism and time-wave theory.

An interesting hypothesis and tour through archealogical evidence on the Stoned Ape Theory. Like most “just so” stories about evolution it can never be tested and its unlikely that there was one single factor driving human evolution, but it was his theory.

Not read this yet.

A list of books I might buy and read one day.

• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David MacKay FRS
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them by Tim Lang
• The Great Paradox of Science - Mano Singham - Oxford University Press
• Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20 May 2021

Try and avoid Amazon when buying your books, their aggressive pricing leaves little profit for publishers/authors. If you're in the UK you can use find-book.co.uk to compare prices across several places (NB The Book Depository is actually owned by Amazon). A good alternative that matches Amazon on most prices is Wordery.com.

I don't read many blogs regularly these days.

• webring random

  Scientific Literature
• libgen
• sci-hub
• Online Library and Publication Platform | Directory of Open Access Books

• All IT eBooks free PDFs of technical computing books.
• Everything CURL

• Famous Speeches: A List of the Greatest Speeches of All-Time

• Library of Scroll

Nautil.us have an interesting series on Science Practice

• How One Psychologist Is Tackling Human Biases in Science
• How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
• The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis

Also philosophy…

• The Joys of Being a Stoic - Issue 92: Frontiers - Nautilus
• Over Time, Buddhism and Science Agree - Issue 9: Time - Nautilus

Another place with thought provoking articles.

• The challenge of reclaiming the commons from capitalism | Aeon Essays
• Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
• James Lovelock: the death of scientific independence? | Aeon Essays

• Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future | Frontiers inConservation Science
• Some Thoughts on 2050 and Beyond
• Infirmity an interesting read on senescence.