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I like the writing style. So easy to read after tackling Nostromo.

I like the writing style. So easy to read after tackling Nostromo.

The books is more interesting as it continues. This chapter about how comfort is not well being covers so much I'd agree with. Reflecting on the good data about myopia- I'm glad I kept reading this book.

The piece about Woman having around 150 cycles during their lifetime because so often pregnant and how now many woman experience the effects of cell division promoting oestrogen as cancer was really eye opening.

Many obscure words. Archaic, Spanish, Italian....but the story is starting make more sense. The man likes his paragraphs supersized.

You can feel and measure the energy cost of digestion by how much your body temperature rises after eating a meal. Processed foods don't increase your temp as much. Interesting.

Wow amazing insights into Tibet and British and it relationship to the Qing Empire.

...But with a car there was an insurmountable problem: it was impossible for the chauffeur to operate the wheel while kneeling, or even standing. The chauffeur would have to sit down, right in front of her. The car remained the only modern device that was interesting and available to the empress dowager which she did not try. Interesting!

"Heaping frost onto snow" I love this phrase as an act of futility.

Mismatch diseases is an interesting topic

Mismatch diseases is an interesting topic