A Journal of the Irrepressible
I’ve been a big fan of Tuvan throatsinging since the early 1990s, when my friend Jay turned me on to Ralph Leighton’s book, Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
Leighton made a video of throatsinger Ondar and it’s pretty freekin awesome. (Thanks Boing Boing.)
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) by Daniel L. Everett
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd