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Before that I've used Rizatriptan to treat rather than prevent (works well, but can cause brain fog, mood swings and GI issues). In order to get approval for the CGRP I had to try lower-cost drugs like Verapamil (a calcium channel blocker) which had no effects at all, positive or negative, and Topiramate, which is the single worst medication I've ever used. Compared to all of those, the CGRP is a miracle and has been life-changing.
"Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" by Rebecca Wragg-Sykes is great.
"Almost Human" by Lee Berger is about one particular discovery rather than human origins as a whole but is an entertaining read - there was an accompanying PBS special (NOVA?) that's worth watching as well to really understand the scale of some of the caves they were in.
You can also download his follow-up, "The Anarchist's Design Book", free here: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book
Between those two, they will teach you what tools you need and how to build simple furniture by hand. Start small.
The food is good but expensive, especially with delivery fees and tips. They've had to close a few locations over the years, so it's not a slam dunk in every city and I assume the margins are still slim.
"Suttree" doesn't come up as often as his other work but is my personal favorite. There are some darker moments but it's a very funny book - a lot of "Charles Portis"-esque conversations and encounters.
(But I also like finding/restoring old Stanley planes when possible, which is cheap and ethically satisfying).
It's pretty quick to get up and running with it, you can always get access to the underlying d3 selections to do more complicated operations, and the main developer is fairly accessible through stackoverflow questions or github questions. There are some gotchas I've run into but nothing that has made me consider switching. We evaluated a few different libraries before choosing it.
I can't speak for performance really because we don't have huge datasets. For ordinary business data (not looking at 1000s of points on a chart), it's fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Stickley