A Calm Eye on the Selfish Gene Storm
Over at the Genetic Literacy Project, editor Kenrick Vezina offers a particularly level-headed and constructive consideration of the debate over the fitness of …
Uncommon Reading – Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf on Hemingway
One of the underrated pleasures of the internet is all the old stuff we can now read — goodies that 20 years ago …
Selfie Showdown: Colin Powell v Stanley Kubrick
Making the rounds today is the highly charming selfie of a young Colin Powell: Powell’s photo has that good power a selfie …
Fortune Favors the Bold and Anxious — in baboon learning in this one study, at least.
At her Zoologic blog, over at my old haunts at Wired Science Blogs, Mary Bates looks at an absolutely fascinating study of how …
Dead or Alive? The Selfish Gene, Reconsidered
After my Aeon essay “Die, Selfish Gene, Die” last December sparked much discussion, the editors asked biologists Robert Sapolsky and Karen James, genetic …
The Story Behind the Story of “My Mother’s Lover”
Quick publicity note: Snap Judgment, the popular NPR story-telling show and podcast, has a segment this week in which I describe how …
Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Time’s Vain Delusions
A couple weeks ago I found myself staring at an undersized image on my iPhone: the wee tiny cover of Neil Young’s …
Leonardo da Vinci and the Power of Ignorance
In his fine short Leonardo da Vinci: A Life, for Penguin’s Penguin Lives series, Sherwin Nuland wonders if there are times when …