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They Froze for Science — But Got the Eggs

Posted on June 6, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Below find #8 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted on the eve of the blog’s move to this site. (Details on my move are at bottom of the first post in this series). This piece, among my personal […]

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They Froze for Science — and Got the Eggs

Posted on January 9, 2012 by David Dobbs · 6 Comments

In winter I sometimes warm up by reading books with real cold. For a few years years I shuttled between Rick Bass’s Winter, about his first winter in Montana in the 1980s, and R.M. Patterson’s magnificent, shivering Dangerous River, of his days trapping the Yukon in the 1920s. Last week, partly to commemorate the centenary of […]

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, the true strange story of my mother's secret wartime affair, which became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single, and which readers of the longform publisher The Atavist selected as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For my reading recommendations in my daily newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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