James Aura
@jamesaura.bsky.social
I write mysteries, environmental and climate fiction: Sometimes they overlap. #books #SciFi #mysteries
Latest book: The Hurricane Code https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Code-James-Aura/dp/B08J1SK814
Latest book: The Hurricane Code https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Code-James-Aura/dp/B08J1SK814
CRICK: A Mind in Motion: The building blocks of life were just the beginning
The Building Blocks of Life Were Just the Beginning
CRICK: A Mind in Motion, by Matthew Cobb Biographers work on a spectrum: from the nimble narrative, propulsive and colorful
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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
CRICK: A Mind in Motion: The building blocks of life were just the beginning
On diagramming a sentence by David Foster Wallace
Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram | Los Angeles Review of Books
Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
On diagramming a sentence by David Foster Wallace
The North Atlantic's 'Cold Blob' fed by Greenland's Glacier melt, could turn countries like Ireland into a
deep freeze #climate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
deep freeze #climate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
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November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The North Atlantic's 'Cold Blob' fed by Greenland's Glacier melt, could turn countries like Ireland into a
deep freeze #climate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
deep freeze #climate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
SciFi Novel 'Neuromancer' is being adapted for Apple TV #SciFi
40 Years Later, Sci-Fi’s Greatest Opening Line Will Hit Harder Than Ever
Sci-fi’s greatest line is more relevant than ever.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
SciFi Novel 'Neuromancer' is being adapted for Apple TV #SciFi
A young reporter tracking a serial killer discovers murder of another kind: Environmental devastation in Appalachia. The Cumberland Killers. a Kentucky Mystery #KindleUnlimited #mystery #books
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November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A young reporter tracking a serial killer discovers murder of another kind: Environmental devastation in Appalachia. The Cumberland Killers. a Kentucky Mystery #KindleUnlimited #mystery #books
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Review: Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company #books #nonfiction
Review: Apple in China by Patrick McGee
"Apple in China" by Patrick McGee is the best and most important book about the personal computing industry in at least a decade.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Review: Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company #books #nonfiction
Reposted by James Aura
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
The New York Times now has a list of 100 'Notable' Books
Which Notable Book of 2025 Should You Read? Let Us Help You. (Gift Article)
We’ve broken down our annual list by theme.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The New York Times now has a list of 100 'Notable' Books
'Pluribus' is not 'Breaking Bad' and that's a good thing
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Pluribus isn't the new Breaking Bad - and that's a good thing
Vince Gilligan made lightning strike twice with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. For his third act, he's flipped the script
inews.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
'Pluribus' is not 'Breaking Bad' and that's a good thing
inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
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Thanksgiving: A Love Story
Cherishing the ghosts of holidays past.
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Cherishing the ghosts of holidays past.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thanksgiving: A Love Story
Cherishing the ghosts of holidays past.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/tha...
Cherishing the ghosts of holidays past.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/tha...
A new book, Brothers of the Gun, explores the unlikely friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
‘Every account is slightly different’: who were the real Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday?
A new book, Brothers of the Gun, explores the unlikely friendship between a complicated lawman and a cursed gambler
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A new book, Brothers of the Gun, explores the unlikely friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy
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On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy
“I like to think I’m actually a smart person,” the late American anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber told me one evening in a restaurant near his office at the London School of E…
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November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy
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lithub.com/on-david-gra...?
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
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The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” -wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction #books
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November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” -wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction #books
Trump's E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas #environment #climate
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E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday that it would delay a requirement that the oil and gas industry limit
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November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trump's E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas #environment #climate
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Reposted by James Aura
We now get ten hours of daylight. Mountain sunsets are the best !
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving. #ncstories
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving. #ncstories
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We now get ten hours of daylight. Mountain sunsets are the best !
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving. #ncstories
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving. #ncstories
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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written -by Walter Isaacson #books
THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN | Kirkus Reviews
Words that made a nation.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written -by Walter Isaacson #books
How Robert Louis Stevenson navigated a lifetime of chronic illness #biography
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How Robert Louis Stevenson navigated a lifetime of chronic illness #biography
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A staggering new observation of Hurricane Melissa was confirmed this week: As the powerful storm was preparing to hit Jamaica in late October, a dropsonde — a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters aircraft — logged a 252 mph wind gust.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A staggering new observation of Hurricane Melissa was confirmed this week: As the powerful storm was preparing to hit Jamaica in late October, a dropsonde — a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters aircraft — logged a 252 mph wind gust.
archive.ph/0h0R8
archive.ph/0h0R8
A staggering new observation of Hurricane Melissa was confirmed this week: As the powerful storm was preparing to hit Jamaica in late October, a dropsonde — a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters aircraft — logged a 252 mph wind gust.
archive.ph/0h0R8
archive.ph/0h0R8
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A staggering new observation of Hurricane Melissa was confirmed this week: As the powerful storm was preparing to hit Jamaica in late October, a dropsonde — a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters aircraft — logged a 252 mph wind gust.
archive.ph/0h0R8
archive.ph/0h0R8
'A Sense of Space' On the cognitive maps inside our brains
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How the Human Brain Actually Gets Us From Point A to Point B
“Where are you going with this?” “I’m not following you” “You seem so distant” “That’s all behind us now” “My mind is wandering” We often use the language of navigation through physical space to de…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
'A Sense of Space' On the cognitive maps inside our brains
lithub.com/how-the-huma...?
lithub.com/how-the-huma...?
On literacy and class: It’s easier to put your hand in the next guy’s pocket if he’s illiterate
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
On literacy and class: It’s easier to put your hand in the next guy’s pocket if he’s illiterate
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Future Paleontologists will likely find a marker from this era when chemicals of all kinds became woven into human bodies and probably the genome. PFAS is a big one, plastics and fossil fuels as well. #environment
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Get ready to consume more forever chemicals
The Make America Healthy Again movement has quite a few hurdles to jump through with this one.�
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving toward approving two new pesticides that ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Future Paleontologists will likely find a marker from this era when chemicals of all kinds became woven into human bodies and probably the genome. PFAS is a big one, plastics and fossil fuels as well. #environment
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...