The Shape of Things

Books

Two books, kept here in full. One is nonfiction and one is a novel. The lanes keep their claims apart on purpose.

Nonfiction Cannabis Is Food Why Your Body Needs It Raw, Not Heated A plain-language translation of the Floyd and Benjamin preprints on what the endocannabinoid system is fed, with recipes. Its central claim is a hypothesis, and the book's A1C Challenge is an open observational study of it. Read it here, chapter by chapter Fiction Current Drift A near-contemporary novel aboard a research ship. Heat that will not rise from a rock on the sea floor survives every explanation meant to kill it, and the crew has to separate what one of them sees from what survives being doubted. Fiction: the data are invented. Read it here, chapter by chapter Fiction The Warden A Lagos story about two platforms that tell informal workers what they can be trusted to do. One grows fast with no one holding the gate. The other refuses to vouch for what it cannot see. Fiction: the names, figures and events are invented. Read it here, chapter by chapter