Read Two: Severed heads, runaway PR, math gender, minimalism
How to Take a Picture of a Severed Head Or not. IS is working very hard to manage its media presence, and it’s working. By Sebastian Meyer and Alicia P.Q. Whitm...
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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman
My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...
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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”
Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print th...
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The Net’s Brightest Glitter, from Bonobos to Nabokov
Best of the Week: Developmental Plasticity and the “Hard-Wired” Problem. by Patrick Clarkin. We’ve built a wall between genes and environment. Clarkin tears it ...
Can A Pilot Save Medicine From Its Fatal Mistakes? He Can Try
Fabulous story from Ian Leslie: Martin Bromiley is a modest man with an immodest ambition: to change the way medicine is practised in the UK. I first met him in...
Virginia Woolf on Happiness Among the Plain
Virginia Woolf on people that you might think that she would think plain, and does, but then again, not. This while on holiday visiting some in-laws: a banker a...
Virginia Woolf Takes a Walk, Finds a Novel
In 1905, a year after her father died, Virginia Woolf, then 23, took a vacation with her sister and two brothers near St. Ives, the town along the Cornwall coas...
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Beauty, Brains, Bodies, and Poultry – The Week’s Brightest Glitter
A not-comprehensive sampling of the good stuff I found this week. (I spent most of my reading time reading Virginia Woolf.) Oh do, do watch this: A poultry farm...
Virginia Woolf is happy, but not with D.H. Lawrence, not at all
In the fall of 1932, the same year she fell apart in March and fainted in August, Virginia Woolf went on a happy compositional tear in October and November, wri...