Speaker’s Book:
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo
Achieving Mars: From Pipe Dream to Possibility
Print:
- The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, by Jane Poynter
- Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theatre of All Possibilities, by Rebecca Reider
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach,
Online:
- As Biosphere is Sealed, its Patron Reflects on Life (1991) – New York Times
- Project had “Secret Cult” (1996) – Tuscon Citizen,
- Biosphere 2: Bogus New World? (1992) – Washington Post,
- The Profits of Doom: the Biosphereians Lure Scientists to a High-priced Feast Under Glass (1991) – Phoenix New Times, 1991
- Buzz Aldrin Op-Ed: The Call of Mars – New York Times
- Inside the Biosphere Bubble – Wired
- The Haunting True Story of a Man Who Spent Two Tears in a Self-contained ‘Biosphere’ and Nearly Fell Apart – Business Insider
- A 21st Century ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth – Motherboard,
- A Second Act for Biosphere 2 – New York Times
- Life Under the Bubble – Discover Magazine
- Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Ran a Massive Climate Experiment – Wired
- (Video) Jane Poynter’s Life In Biosphere 2 – TED
Hobbes’ Folly: 3700 Years Of Not Squaring The Circle
Print:
- The Magic Mountain, by Thoman Mann
- Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis, by Douglas M. Jesseph
Online:
- Squaring the Circle: A History of the Problem. Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by Merchant Books in 2007 – Earnest William Hobson
The Great Henry “Box” Brown: Man of the Impossible!
Print:
- The Unboxing of Henry Brown, by Jeffrey Ruggles
- The Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, by Henry Box Brown
Online:
Milan 1880: A Death Blow for Deaf Rights
Print:
- Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language, by Douglas C. Baynton
- International Congresses on Education of the Deaf: An Analytic History, 1878-1980, by Richard G. Brill
- “Hearing with the Eye: The Rise of Deaf Education in the United States”, Barry A. Crouch & Brian H. Greenwald from the The Deaf History Reader (Anthology), edited by John Vickrey Van Cleve
- A Disability History of the United States, by Kim Nielson
- Issues in Deaf Education, by Ruth Swanwick
Online:
- Edward Gallaudet’s recounting of the 1880 Milan ConferenceThe Real “Toll” of A. G. Bell: Lessons about Eugenics – Brian H. Greenwald via JSTOR
- History of Gallaudet
- International Congress of the Deaf (ICED) July 18-22, 2010 (Canadians rejecting 1880 Milan) – World Federation of the Deaf
- The 21st International Congress on Education of the Deaf and the
- Repudiation of the 1880 Congress of Milan – American Annals of the Deaf
- Signs of Resistance: Peer Learning of Sign Languages Within ‘Oral’
- Schools for the Deaf –
- Alexander Graham Bell and the Deaf Community: A Troubled History – Shandra Benito
- Alexander Graham Bell and His Role in Oral Education – Disability History Museum
- Milan, Italy 1880 – Handspeak.com
Dying To Be the Most White…and Then Dying Not To Be
Online:
- In a Post-‘Black Panther’ World, Can Skin-Lightening Finally Stop? – KQED
- (Video) Nona Jablonsky Breaks the Illusion of Skin Color – TED
- Theobald Palm and His Remarkable Observation: How the Sunshine Vitamin Came to Be Recognized – Russell W. Chesney
The Impossible Worlds of MC Escher
Print:
- M. C. Escher: Letters to Canada 1958-1972, by Cyndie Campbell, George Escher
- Escher On Escher, by M.C. Escher
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Online:
- M.C. Escher (Official Website)
- About Escher – Escher In Het Paleis
- Escher for the Mathmetician – Jeanine Daems
- The Impossible World of M.C. Escher – Steven Poole
- Escher, the Master of Impossible Art – Susan Mansfield
- How Mick Jagger Got Dissed by M.C. Escher – Mental Floss
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon withAudrey Boguchwal, Kurt Larson, Christian Cagigal, Will Johansson, Dhaya Lakshminarayana, and Audrey Penven. Thank you!
