Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
06 May 2021The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of…
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
09 Jul 2020During a long quarantine such as we are now undergoing it’s a good time for stories, as the locked-up Florentines…
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
26 Aug 2019Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon…
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Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?
14 Mar 2018Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the…
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Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
31 Oct 2017A surprise gift from a brother on a recent birthday was Jonathan White’s 2017 Tides: The Science and Spirit of…
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Baboons and You: A Natural History of Peace
02 Aug 2017Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a…
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The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
13 Jun 2017I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In…
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A Matter of Degrees
21 Apr 2016These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out. This…
