Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
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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…
