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This week's #NewBooks at the library: @princetonupress has a 70% off sale at the moment! I bagged myself four fascinating books:
- The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences
- The Network of Life: A New View of #Evolution
- Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
- Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

#Psychology #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #ClimateChange #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of four books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain covering the door.

From left to right, we have:
- The Mirror and the Mind, which divides its cover into a white and silver-coloured half and plays tricks by mirroring the title and author name;
- The Network of Life, showing a close-up of a leaf's vein pattern, the colours grading from yellow through green to blue;
- Zero to Birth, which shows a diagram of a human embryo inside the capital B of Birth, and the outline of a human brain in coloured dots that are connected by many lines;
- and Long Problems, which shows a dark blue background with the title in bold white letters, printed at a ninety-degree angle and narrowing towards the top, imitating the Star Wars title crawl.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought several second copies of
- How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain
- Kate Raworth's Doughnut #Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. We had hoped to get this signed when she recently spoke in London, but, alas, failed.
- An ex-library copy of an older classic on #Buffon: From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics, of which I made a note after reviewing Every Living Thing some time back.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Neurobiology #Degrowth #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, standing up, How the Mind Changed, showing two pictures of a human brain on a black background. At the top, part of a connectome picture, showing a high-resolution brain scan of neuronal connections in green, red, and purple; at the bottom, part of the surface of the brain, using the same green, red, and purple colour scheme

In the middle, Doughtnut Economics, showing a close-up picture of a blackboard with a drawing in white chalk of two concentric circles, one inside the other. Two pieces of white chalk lie next to the outer circle.

On the right, From Natural History to the History of Nature, showing a plain hardcover book bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering. This is an ex-library copy bound in transparent protective foil that gives it a slightly shiny look.

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🧠 ICYMI: When stress hits, the #brain hands control over to the #amygdala, setting off automatic fight, flight, or freeze reactions before logical thinking can step in.

An #animation from the nonprofit #TREC outlines how our #nervoussystem processes sudden pressure and why physical reactions precede words.

👉 https://seethis.tv/post/your-brains-fight-flight-or-freeze-response

#stress #anatomy #anxiety #biology #body #emotions #health #howthingswork #humanbody #education #learning #mentalhealth #neurobiology #neuroscience #psychology #science #teaching #tksst #video