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“This little book will look at and answer some questions about whether nature (or human nature) is winning or really benefitting from all this technology…” More of a quote below:
“The nature vs. technology debate has existed for decades and takes many nuanced forms. In this book, Mathews uses broad strokes with technology, including cars, guns, phones, fossil fuels, plastics, and AI. Nature is focused both on the health of the earth and oceans as well as on the animals and humans inhabiting the earth. Through a collection of fifteen chapters, Mathews discusses some of the good and the bad, which are byproducts of both technology and the natural world. Some of her discussions involve cyber-bullying and school shootings, plastics in the ocean and the dangers to the coral reef, forever chemicals, meditation, and climate change brought on by industry and burning fuels. She has included a wide variety of resources to support her findings.
Mathews’ concise book will give readers a vast overview of many topics surfacing in this ongoing dialogue…”
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DJ Mathews
We are IN the Christmas SEASON!!!
This has been a heck of a December!
FALL IS DONE, WINTER HAS ARRIVED, HOLIDAY CHEER AND RESOLUTIONS ARE IN THING TOO!
Fall has been very colorful, but not till AFTER we left Tennessee! (See a little about my travels at my page title “writer news/ideas”.)
I have done “so much” running around in the last month that I have gotten my January head cold a whole month early! I even went to CVS urgent care and the doc there said, “You don’t have COVID, or the flu, OR an infection. And taking an antibiotic would probably just aggravate things.” I was/am miserable with a head cold. And the spouse’s idea to take codeine, with an “expectorant” was supposed to somehow cure me, make me better. But no. That didn’t happen.
What happened was that I “almost” fell asleep with the codeine. THEN, the expectorant tickled my throat and fully woke me up. So I coughed. It was a short cough, but long enough to fully wake me up. Darn. And that went on– for hours.
The night after that I went back to a “severe” Nyquil treatment that had 4 different ingredients in it. But I slept all the way through the night! The thing is, when using aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, and the like, you have to be careful you don’t take it day after day and hour after hour for many days– it can hurt your liver and/or kidneys. So I am trying not to be dependent on these medicines. Is there a happy medium in there? Doctors really don’t tell you much unless you really “pump them” for information. Yes, sometimes you just gotta be a bit pushy.
As noted on my page on Writer News and Ideas, I’ve traveled to Tennessee, but also this year saw a bit of South Dakota (its wonderful nature– Badlands National Park as well as the kitschy Wall, S. D. with its famous drugstore and 50 feet high wooden jackalope, an animal of legend in those parts!).
Don’t be like me, but make sure are you bundled up when you decorate for Christmas outside, and you get enough shut-eye if traveling (or make up for it when you get back, for sure). Take care of yourself in this cooler weather and talk to your pharmacist about the latest COVID and flu shots.
I will send out an enewsletter and health info soon– don’t make MY health mistakes (!) and consider the YA oriented “Great American Women in Science and Environment” for a Christmas/end of year gift to yourself or someone else, learning about some interesting women in science you’ve heard of already (such as Sally Ride, Elizabeth Blackwell, Erin Brockovich, Julia “Butterfly” Hill).
My newest book, “Nature vs. Technology — who’s Winning?” has a book trailer about it by clicking on this link, WHICH OFFERS 20 PERCENT OFF in the video : https://youtu.be/YfEH6J5LSr4 OR See it at this other link:
https://booklocker.com/books/13191.html
Get some info from a regarded source and hope you will STAY SAFE AND HAPPY IN THIS YEAR AND 2026.
Sign up for the newsletter if you haven’t already, as I am working on a health PDF on humor and some other tips you can carry into the new year on this page, so see at the bottom or the contact page! Thanx!
See my book excerpt on “space” or “food” on the Writer News/Ideas page! And there is a blog below on curious looking squirrels and more to click on, so go ahead!
D. J. Mathews is an author or coauthor of 4 books and working on others. She is also a freelance writer, blogger, product reviewer, and proud mother. She taught logic and writing for several years at Radford University. She is a Master Naturalist. See her humorous rants at https://medium.com/@djmathews or buy her a digital coffee for her writing or pics at https://ko-fi.com/naturelover2
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Extensively, I will provide ideas and examples on managing money better, paying for an education, dealing with doctors, and good ideas or deals when it comes to travel. I will also consider science, as it relates to my book “Great American Women in Science and Environment.” Science and the future can be both a good or bad thing, depending on your consumer choices and outlook. And writers can always use tips on how and where to make money. I will do regular blogs on these issues, seeking always to inform in an entertaining manner.
