Book - The Drafting Table (Page 2)

Steppe Cycle

This post is a review of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. The chapters have different authors and mostly stand on their own; the editor of the whole volume is Alan Mikhail [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/water-on-sand-9780199768660?cc=ca&lang=en&

Computer

Week 7: Haskell

With this post, I've come to the end of my series going through the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. It was a good experience and I feel like I learned quite a bit (but have a lot more to learn—this really only scratched

Computer

Week 6: Clojure

After the past [https://danbscott.ghost.io/assorted-links-spring-2018/] two [https://danbscott.ghost.io/st-paul/] posts on different topics, I'm returning to my series on Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. The programming language covered in this week's chapter is Clojure, a dialect of Lisp

Bible

St. Paul

I intended to have this post written shortly after Easter, but April has been a really busy month so far (and looks to continue as such) so I didn't get to it until now. Next post, I plan to return to my series on Seven Languages in Seven

Links

Assorted Links (Spring 2018)

I decided to take a break from my programming series [https://danbscott.ghost.io/week-5-erlang/] this week (and probably next week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/st-paul/] too). Like back in the fall [https://danbscott.ghost.io/assorted-links-fall-2017/], I've got some links saved up that are related to things

Book

Week 2: Io

Continuing the series I started last week, this post is about the entry in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks on the prototyping [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming] language Io [http://iolanguage.org/]. As before, I'm going to share my notes on this chapter, including a few

Book

Week 1: Ruby

As I mentioned last week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/updating-ubuntu/], I'm trying to work through the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate this winter. This first week was about the object-oriented [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming] language Ruby [https://www.ruby-lang.org/]. Week

Math

Circles and Triangles

This post is about a book on geometry that I read last year (finishing up over the holidays). Beautiful Geometry [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10065.html] was written by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Each of its 51 chapters explains a topic in geometry and presents an artistic plate

Book

There Really Is a Tree

This is my final post for the year (not counting a year in review summary planned for a week from now) and it is a book review I've been saving for Christmas. The book is Every Good Endeavor: Connecting your work to God's work by Tim

Book

Salt makes you Thirst

This post contains reviews of a couple of history books that I read this fall: Salt and Thirst. The former is about salt as an ingredient, preservative, and commodity; the latter is about approaches to water management in various ancient societies. Salt Salt: A World History [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

Book

Putting Civilization in the Sea

This post is a book review. The title is an allusion to another one [https://danbscott.ghost.io/putting-the-sea-in-civilization/] I wrote earlier this year. Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians was written by Joe Quirk with contributions

Water

The Tao of Water

This post contains some philosophical and cultural views of water and the sea, including a book review. A book [https://danbscott.ghost.io/history-through-a-liquid-lens/] (Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization) that I read a few years ago gave the following description of competing perspectives (dikes vs. drainage

Book

Quantified Conservation

This post is a review of the book Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy, by Joe Whitworth. At the start of this year, I included a TEDx talk he did in a post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/rational-optimism-about-the-environment/] I wrote and mentioned that this book was on my reading

Brazil

grãos de café

My previous post was about my experiences in Brazil [https://danbscott.ghost.io/cana-de-acucar/]; this post is about some things I learned about the history and culture of that country. Before I went to Brazil, I took a short, free, online course about its history. The course was called Brazil

History

Putting the "Sea" in Civilization

This post is about a book I finished reading recently. Compared to many of the book reviews I've written, this one took longer to read but the review is maybe a bit shorter. The Sea & Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine [http://lincolnpaine.

environment

Rational Optimism About the Environment

Continuing from last week's retrospective post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/2016-year-in-review/], I wanted to look at a few more posts that I wrote last year; I left them out of the discussion in the previous post because they have overlapping themes that made it logical to discuss them

Book

Solomon and Confucius, part 3

This is the third entry in a 3-part series on the book of Proverbs and the Analects. * Part 1 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-1/] * Part 2 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-2/] * Part 3 As mentioned in the previous posts in this series, I'll wrap it up by looking

Book

Solomon and Confucius, part 2

Continuing from last week, this is part two of a planned 3-part series comparing the books of Proverbs and the Analects. * Part 1 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-1/] * Part 2 * Part 3 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-3/] The topic of the previous post was on the meaning of being a

Book

Solomon and Confucius, part 1

This is part one of a planned 3-part series comparing the books of Proverbs and the Analects. * Part 1 * Part 2 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-2/] * Part 3 [https://danbscott.ghost.io/solomon-and-confucius-part-3/] Introduction C.S. Lewis wrote that: > Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it

History

Friars black, white, and grey

I was inspired to learn more about the history of religious orders after visiting an abbey in Scotland [https://danbscott.ghost.io/highlights-from-scotland-2014/] and while planning a trip to France [https://danbscott.ghost.io/follow-the-red-brick-canal/]. I read a book called The Lord as Their Portion: The Story of the Religious

Book

Free Market Environmentalism

As mentioned at the top of my previous post, this post is a book review. It's quite a lengthy post so it took a while to find time to write it; I hope it was worth the wait. Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation (abbreviated FME below)

Book

Mushrooms and Mosses

This is sort of two posts in one—reviews of a couple of books I got when I was in the Pacific Northwest [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/] last fall. They are Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural

Book

The Sky's Not Falling

As a break from all the negative [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bahrain-cuts-ties-with-tehran-as-crisis-widens-in-saudi-iran-split/2016/01/04/145c8824-b271-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html] news [http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/overnight+stock+market+plunge+marks+gloomy+start+first+trading+2016/11629362/story.html] in the world today, I thought I'd start 2016 with

Water

The Waves Shape the Shore, and the Shore Shapes the Waves

I'm continuing to work my way through books [https://danbscott.ghost.io/a-winter-in-arabia/] that I picked up on vacation [https://danbscott.ghost.io/oregon-trail/]. This post is a review of Waves and Beaches: the dynamics of the ocean surface by Willard Bascom. (I've been really busy

Book

"A Winter in Arabia"

This post is a review of the book A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Dame Freya Stark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Stark]. It was published in 1940 and describes a months-long visit she made to the Hadhramaut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadhramaut] region of