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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science

5/6/2021

The 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

7/9/2020

During 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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Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?

3/14/2018

Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the …

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How War Began – Way Back Then

5/4/2017

Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is.  Is it locked into our …

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A Matter of Degrees

4/21/2016

These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out.  This …

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The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work

9/30/2015

The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …

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“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation

12/22/2014

There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …

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Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers

12/15/2014

It’s not all war, all the time on this blog.  I do take breaks.  Last month it was for a …

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Particle Fever – A Movie to See

8/20/2014

Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90 …

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Race is Not a Useful Concept

1/20/2014

The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is …

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Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net

7/8/2013

We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …

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Why Does the World Exist?

6/7/2013

On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars …

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