Tag: ocean

• Favorite Books of 2014

  My favorite books from 2014 are all nonfiction, a thoroughly unsurprising result of it being way easier for me to get through a 700-page historical tome than a 200-page novel. Sorry, novels: this year it was especially true that the truth is stranger and more fascinating than fiction. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us…

  Jan 16, 2015

  # Akron, best of, books, Five Came Back, freediving, James Nestor, lists, Mark Harris, Nicholas Carr, ocean, Randall Munroe, review, The Glass Cage, The Hard Way on Purpose, What If

• Deep & The Divine Milieu

  At one point in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Mason asks his father if there’s magic in the world. Probably not literal magic, his dad replies. But then he asks the boy: if you didn’t know what a whale was and someone told you there was a giant mammal that lived underwater with a heart as big…

  Aug 29, 2014

  # books, God, James Nestor, ocean, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, review, science, synchronicity, The Divine Milieu, Think Christian