Alessandra is reading…

🦈30 Animals That Made Us Smarter by Patrick Aryee 🐻‍❄️

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter takes the reader on a journey through 30 stories of animals that have inspired scientists to invent awe-inspiring things that are helping or will help humans and nature.

Patrick Aryee has a great, easy(ish) book here – he gives so much info about the animals and the scientists’ inventions. Aryee’s jokes were a great addition and the illustrations by Lizzie Harper were amazing.

This book made my nerd brain so happy, especially with all of the info about animals. But Aryee makes the information accessible and understandable to most readers and rarely uses scientific jargon, only when it is absolutely necessary. So anyone can read and mostly comprehend what he’s talking about. Which is great, because not all scientific info translates well from the lab or the scientist to the general reader who has a basic scientific knowledge.

I especially loved the stories especially about the polar bear, tardigrade, arapaima, and sharks.

Personally, I did not enjoy much of the conclusion because I’m very wary of AI and don’t think we should really be immersing ourselves in technology more than we already have. I already think there are too many robots running our lives daily and it will be a problem if there are more in the future. Technology is great when it works – but what happens when there are more robots running our lives and they break or there’s a malfunction and only certain people know how to fix it? And then when we’ve relied on robots for so long, when we don’t have them to rely on any longer, we’ll be helpless and suffer even more than before we added the robots and potentially die.

I’m not cropping the pics in this post because the grass makes me happy and I’m sad it’s too cold to read outside now.

Read on.