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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

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John Berger and Susan Sontag’s delicious shoptalk and big hair

Posted on January 8, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What a fabulous conversation this is, between two giants we’ve lost. You see here, in this quiet, quietly intense, intensely curious conversation — in which (a ...

Biology/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings

Two Sharp Takes on Mukherjee’s The Gene

Posted on May 19, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Nathaniel Comfort, “Genes Are Overrated”: Mukherjee gives us a Whig history of the gene, told with verve and color, if not scrupulous accuracy. The ...

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There are rants and there are rants. This here is a rant.

Posted on March 31, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As Jezebel notes elsewhere, this bomb-throwing freelancer revenge rant burns bridges with admirable abandon. Been a while since I’ve read one quite so fun...

Culture of Science/History of science/Readings

How Failure Is Moving Science Forward

Posted on March 29, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Psychology, biomedicine and numerous other fields of science have fallen into a crisis of confidence recently, after seminal findings could not be replicated in...

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Brooke Borel’s strange story about Kevin Folta interviewing himself, among other (mis)adventures

Posted on October 20, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  The Kevin Folta/GMO/Monsanto/Right-to-Know/conflict-of-interest variety show and bazaar — a saga about a food scientist who took $25,000 from Monsanto wi...

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A rowdy, harrowing, vital book: My Times review of ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger.

Posted on April 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

I’ve a review of Alice Dreger’s latest book in this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review; it just appeared online.   “Galileo’s Middl...

Culture/Photography/Readings

The frightening beauty of Sally Mann’s children

Posted on April 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Sally Mann on the frightening beauty of her children, in the New York Times Magazine. I find this an especially moving reflection. That’s the critical thing abo...

Books/Culture/Read Two

Calvin and Hobbes walk into a bar. Grammar cop says Oh no they didn’t.

Posted on March 9, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

From today’s Read 2 You’d think a column arguing that Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip ever couldn’t start an argument. Yet it does. ...

Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Read Two/War/Writing

How you read, Alice Munro writes, and war comes home

Posted on March 6, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Here are three of the five items on today’s edition of my semi-regular “Read 2 of these and call me in the morning” mailing. The life, death, and resurrection o...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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