Darwin: The Mouthpiece of Satan
Now here’s a book I have to read — Rebecca Stott’s new book about Darwin, and it’s not the first, …
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Bioluminescence Flashes to the Rescue
Very cool article a couple of weeks back in the NY Times about Laura Widder, a famed marine biologist, who …
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing …
Climate Change Measurement: Lend a Hand
Very useful article in the Sunday SF Chronicle Home and Garden about measuring budding time of local trees, as a …
Martin Gardner: Gone
Martin Gardner, one of the world’s quintessential men of reason, passed away at age 95 on Saturday. … [he] teased …
Avatar: The Movie
Avatar, the technically amazing, richly conceived and executed movie, will not be to everyone’s taste. It is tasty enough, however, …
Plastic Bag Eater
This is why we need the young: to do what their elders can’t imagine. Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot …