Yesterday, after William and Kate had left and the whole thing was done. There will always be an England.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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How The Great Gatsby Flipped America
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How Charles Darwin Seduced Asa Gray
by David Dobbs •
The history of science lives. Today it came to life over at the Atlantic, which just posted a key document in the fight over Darwin’s theory of evolution: a review of Darwin’s Origin of Species by Harvard botanist Asa Gray, which originally ran in the Atlantic in July 1860. Gray’s review provided a pivotal victory for…
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Tiger Moms and Orchid Children
by David Dobbs •
I thought I’d heard enough about Tiger Moms, but perked up when I came across Tiger Moms and Orchid Kids, by Sam Gridley. Gridley considers how presumably harsh Tiger Mom parenting might generate success and happiness even in highly sensitive kids, the kind you’d think such treatment would crush. What kind of parenting are we talking…
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Picking Robin Dunbar’s Brain: An Interview About Friends
by David Dobbs •
How many friends can we handle? Are online friends different from ones we actually see? I raised these issues a few days ago in a post about Robin Dunbar and “Dunbar’s number,” which explored the trade-offs we face in devoting time to local friendship versus those more distant. Now, by chance, Filip Matous over at…
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Local & Distant Friendships – A Dunbar Number Conundrum
by David Dobbs •
Long ago, when we lived in small villages, your friends’ friends were generally your friends, and vice-versa, with almost complete overlap, because you likely knew the same people — the small number of people who lived in your village. Chances were that number was 150, because 150, as evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar has argued in a social-brain…
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The Writer’s Dilemma: What to Toss
by David Dobbs •
This post launches a modest experiment at Neuron Culture: Friday LitHits, where I intend to use most Fridays to indulge and corral musings on writing, reading, and literature. Indulge, here at this blog mostly about science, because in many ways the problems of writing and reading are much the same as those of science. Corral,…
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Bonobos, Chimpanzees, and Nasty, Peaceful Humans
by David Dobbs •
Apparently it’s Eric Michael Johnson week here at Neuron Culture. Last Friday Johnson, who studies evolutionary anthropology and the history of science, wrote about the Allure of Gay Caveman. Today he published a magnificent cover story at Times Higher Education, “Ariel Casts Out Caliban,” that explores the long-running argument over whether humans are more like…
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The Allure of Gay Cavemen
by David Dobbs •
Guest post by Eric Michael Johnson The following guest post by Eric Michael Johnson is part of the Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. You can follow other stops on this tour through his RSS feed, through his Facebook page, or by following @ericmjohnson on Twitter. Thanks. – EMJ & DD ___ The Allure of…
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A TED Talk to Open Your Eyes to Open Science
by David Dobbs •
Despite ‘open science‘ getting a lot of play lately, many people don’t quite get what it is. That’s understandable, because people use it to mean many things — open access to science publications; open sharing of data; open protocols of communication; open everything. Can get a little fuzzy. It takes a good story to pull…
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