Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

If your nonfiction book is about nature, or weather, or chemistry, or physics, or biology, or engineering, or space, your book fits here. Books about cars, trains, space shuttles, computers, digital watches, and other real life technology, your book fits here.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey- This book is about the ways humans interact with underground spaces. It also explores the geology, hydrology, ecology, etc. of these spaces, and the climbing/spelunking required to access these spaces.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach- This is an interesting book on the various ways human bodies are handled and disposed of. It gets into the science of decomposition, cremation, embalming, etc. I have a few friends who are too sensitive to enjoy this one, but considering how many bodies will be added to our environment every month now, and the challenges of disposing of human remains safely and ecologically on this scale, I'd imagine we may hear more on this topic in the future, as newer body disposal technologies begin rolling out for general use.

I was exposed to new-to-me ideas in Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability by David Owen. When people live closer together in mixed-use neighborhoods, they own fewer things, together help buildings stay cool/warm and use human-driven transportation, such as walking and biking and use mass-transit systems.

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality, by Jared Diamond - an evolutionary biology/ ecology perspective on human sexuality

The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe,by Paul CW Davies

Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French

Reread from pre GR The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

I think this might fit in here:

Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar by David Crystal 27/12 4★

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession