The anthropocene reviewed ch 1 never alone through CH 14 the internet

Introduction of 1

Human beings are destroying the planet. John Green listens to a band called the mountain goats when he writes. He also has vertigo and a tree house.

Ch 1 you'll never walk alone pg 9

This is a song from a play called Columbia and it's sung twice. Now people sing it at soccer games.  

Ch 2 humanity's temporal range pg 13

Human beings have not been around very long when compared to the history of earth as a planet.  But we've had more of an impact than any other animal.  The climate catastrophe we're causing is scary.  But it's probably not gonna be the end of the species.

Ch 3 Haleys comet pg 23

Halley's comet is a good example of a scientific phenomenon that took multiple people from different generations documenting it for us to figure out.  It'll be back in 2061.

Ch 4 our capacity for wonder pg 29

The great Gatsby was a flop.  So much that Fitzgerald's next book was about his mental and physical breakdown in the aftermath of that failure.  What turned it into a success was during ww2 it was sent to service men.  Ever since it has been regarded as a classic.

Ch 5 lascaux   cave painting pg 35

There's a cave in France where there's a thing that rhymes with France.  Its got lots of prehistoric cave paintings.  They were discovered by four teenagers during WW2.  Two of them thought it was important enough to guard until the government closed up the cave with giant doors.  Then they opened it up like it was a museum until they realized the people were ruining the art with their bodies.  So they put back the giant doors and people aren't allowed to go in there to save the art.

Ch 6 scratch n sniff stickers pg 41

Microencapsulation.  That's what is used to infuse scratch n sniff stickers with smells.  They can last super long.  John green got bullied a lot as a kid.  I used to think I got bullied, but I never had a whole classroom try to pull my arms off and pour trash on me.  

Ch 7 diet Dr pepper pg 47

Diet Dr Pepper is one of the great accomplishments of humanity.  Made by a chemist in texas to taste like the soda machine smells.  It's hard to identify what Diet Dr Pepper tastes like.  Except that it tastes more like regular Dr Pepper.  This is actually very remarkable.  There's no other diet soda that has a significantly similar flavor profile as it's regular counterpart.  Texas has a lot of local sodas that never make it out of the state.  Diet doctor peopper is a wonder in the regard that not only did it leave Texas but is known around the world.

CH 8 velociraptors pg 51

The velociraptors from jurrassic part are a lie.  The dinosaur Michael Chriton was really describing was a deinonycus.  But that's not a very dramatic name.  But even though he knows they're fake, John Green loves him some computer generated Velociraptors.  I can't blame him.  Jurrasic park is a great movie based on a great book.  Doesn't really matter that it's super duper fake.

CH 9 Canada geese pg 55

Not too long ago Canada geese were relatively rare.  Entirely due to human hunting.  Hunters would do this thing where they would have a pet goose and cut its wings and use it as bait for wild geese.  When the geese would eventually show up, they would be shot with bullets until they died.  I assumed they ate them.  I've never eaten a goose.  This sort of goose luring isn't legal anymore so goose hunting isn't as big of a deal and geese don't really have any natural predators so they're EVERYWHERE.  Especially in Amberglen park.

CH 10 teddy bears pg 61

People really enjoy killing bears.  Teddy Rosevelt didn't kill that bear, but he ordered it to be killed.  But the story helped toy makers sell stuffed bears.  So it gets repeated a lot even though the punchline in reality was still a dead bear.  We're killing bears more than ever.  But we're doing it with climate change.  It's super sad.

CH 11 the hall of presidents pg 67

Johnny was angry 😠 at 14 and mostly identified with what he hated.  One of.those things was disney world.  Plastic is the word.  That summer his mom ended up with season passes to disney world 🌎.  The place he hated the least was the hall of President s.  There was never a line, he could sit and write and it had the best air conditioning.  Its a monument to a bunch of racist lying murderers.

CH 12 air-conditioning pg 73

I mean, you know the deal with airconditioning.  It's allowing people to live in places that are too hot for people to live.  It's significant as its 10% of all electric use and that's adding to.the climate catastrophe.

CH 13 staphylococcus aureus pg 79

staph infections suck.  They kill over 50k people every year.  It used to kill a lot more because we invented penicillin and it did a good job of.killing Staph before it.could kill us.  But now 98% of staph is resistant to penicillin.  This is the case with a lot of bacteria these days.  But we have lots of other antibiotics and after you try a few the staph usually dies and the person lives.

CH 14 the internet pg 85

This chapter is all about the early days of the internet when aol and compuserve chat was the height of internet goodness.  John Green was a manager of one of these chat rooms and they paid him to be on the internet and do that job.  He had his own phone line to do so.  I would have killed to have my own phone ☎ line when i was in middle school so i could be online all the time.