Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Science’
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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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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
25 Oct 2019One of the most important scientists of the western tradition, and about whom we in America know little, is…
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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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A History of Warfare – John Keegan
14 Aug 2017A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to…
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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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How War Began – Way Back Then
04 May 2017Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our…
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The Story of Stories: Why do We Tell Them? How Long Have We Told Them?
19 Feb 2016Not everyone can tell a gripping story but telling stories may be as integral to the evolution of Homo sapiens…
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
27 Aug 2015A recent article in the NY Times Tuesday Science section caught my attention and brought to mind one of the…
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Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
15 Dec 2014It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a…
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America: Digging out the Past
01 Jul 2014Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and…
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The Sixth Extinction — We’re It
19 Mar 2014From the first major extinction event on earth to the present is about 443 million years. That’s a lot a…
