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Betsy is Currently Reading

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Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone, #25)

by Sue Grafton

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The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone, #21)

by Sue Grafton

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Betsy’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer

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Staying alive is not a thing you should take for granted.

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Betsy’s Quotes

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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“One of Ardi's main lessons is that simplistic narratives contrived to fill gaps in the fossil record often turn out to be wrong. Consensus can be a poor predictor of who turns out to be right in science.”
― Kermit Pattison, Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

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“God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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“Swag?” “Scientific wild ass guess.”
― Michael Connelly, Trunk Music

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“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
― Jeffrey Sachs

tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth

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