Here's a quick review of my first non-fiction read of the year - Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World, by Thant Myint-U.
Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World,by Thant Myint-U,Published by W.W. Norton & Company (2025)Rating: ***** History as Lives Lived History, at its best, arrives not th…
A guiding principle for 2026 is to publish regularly, for which I need to read routinely and widely. Here's my first book review of the new year - thoughts welcomed!
http://tejasrao.net/2026/01/03/letters-again-the-correspondent-by-virginia-evans/
Just ahead of 2024, we were graced by a revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment was released. Happy to see language on 'implementation and compliance' develop. It now looks a lot lesser like the Minamata Convention (although adapted) and a lot more like the Paris/BBNJ language - a lovely emerging case of cross-fertilisation in environmental agreements.
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/44526/RevisedZeroDraftText.pdf
Today's edition of the #newsletter is now live here - it contains stories about reading Rumi, the history of the Troll dolls, and writing a philosophy paper:
https://mailchi.mp/e97a06af23e6/curd-rice-daily-83-14-april-2020
Today's edition of the #newsletter is now live here:
https://mailchi.mp/94f437ba901b/curd-rice-daily-82-13-april-2020
Shameless plugs: a piano cover, book reviews, and #GloPoWriMo. Aside from that, some beautiful pictures of Jupiter, a profile of Weird Al Yankovic, and an excellent lecture on human misjudgment.
Day 5 of #GloPoWriMo/#NaPoWriMo, a poem about a kiwi disliking a metaphor about peaches:
Today's edition of the #newsletter is now live here:
https://mailchi.mp/c676f31c5901/curd-rice-daily-81-05-april-2020
There are several shameless plugs: book reviews, blogposts and of course, the start of #GloPoWriMo, but honestly, there's so much more - a history of the FIFA videogame, for starters.
Today's #newsletter is now live here:
https://mailchi.mp/45be1106208a/curd-rice-daily-80-01-april-2020
We've got a profile of Greta Thunberg, a TED talk about the world's first author, and Ginger Ale - apart from other fascinating things including a review of Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano.
Today's #Newsletter contains stories about The Crown & the Constitution, addiction science, the reboot of Vine, and 2 others:
https://mailchi.mp/870d3318addd/curd-rice-daily-36-26-january-2020
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