#readingforpleasure — Public Fediverse posts
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Reading Is The Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer
Neuroscience News In an era dominated by generative AI, smartphones, and short-form digital media, the way humanity consumes text has transformed more over the past decade than in the entire century preceding it. While modern wellness trends heavily emphasize meditation, biohacking, and neurostimulation to achieve peak mental clarity, a new book points to an overlooked cognitive tool. Reading is not simply a neutral pathway for receiving information; it is a profound neurological catalyst […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/27/reading-is-the-ultimate-cognitive-enhancer/
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Sunday now !!
Time for a good dose of ice tea and a book. I prepare my pen and the stick notes !!
Happy Sunday to everyone !! -
Sunday now !!
Time for a good dose of ice tea and a book. I prepare my pen and the stick notes !!
Happy Sunday to everyone !!
#Sunday #SundayVibes #Books #readingforpleasure #IceTea -
John McPhee’s Short Essay About A 1972 Rockefeller Civil Service Award Winner - Dr. Luna Leopold, The First Chief Hydrologist At The USGS
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/rockefeller-public-service-awards-washington-dc-19580430 <--JFK's 1958 speech at the Rockerfeller Civil Service Awards
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/lessons-learned-a-legend-luna-leopolds-view-river <-- shared details of Dr. Luna Leopold from the USGS
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https://fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-patch-by-john-mcphee.html <-- shared details of The Patch, by John McPhee
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https://eos.org/opinions/luna-b-leopold-geoscience-pioneer <--shared EOS retrospective of Dr Leopold
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I was reading - with a mug of tea - The Patch (link above) by John McPhee, a decades-old favourite author of mine - and came across this short essay amongst many fine others…
#spatial #datalover #measurements #metrics #hydrology #water #fedservice #fedscience #LunaLeopold #hydrologist #crossdiscipline #RockefellerCivilServiceAward #USGS #JohnMcPhee #writing #readingforpleasure #mission #opendata #mapping #waterresources #watersecurity #wateruse #watermanagement
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I have been digging out my old copies of John McPhee's #books, dipping in, remembering what it was like to be a new #geologist, and how it has carried across into #spatial #data, #geomorphology, #geomorphometry, #hydrology, #landcover, #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience, #landuse, #massmovement and so much more......
This one paragraph reminded me so strongly of that time,, although I cannot of course write as eloquently:
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"I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive. It was a fountain of metaphor—of isostatic adjustments and degraded channels, of angular unconformities and shifting divides, of rootless mountains and bitter lakes..."
#GIS #JohnMcPhee #science #scientificwriting #readingforpleasure #geology #water #landforms #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal