Tag: book club
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Get ready for our December Book Club!
Marcus Aurelius said in his Meditations, Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all…
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Octavia Butler’s Dawn: A Review
For our first biopunk book club, ChiTownBiologists read the multi-faceted, thought-provoking book Dawn by Octavia Butler. In Dawn, humans have been decimated by global war and are “rescued” by a tentacle-y alien species called the Oankali–with a catch. The Oankali will help rehabilitate and rebuild humanity if they interbreed with them in a complex form…