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How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

Books/Culture/Readings/Writing

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 ...

Music/Readings/Side Tracks

There is no better early morning music than Red Headed Stranger

Posted on September 20, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’m beginning to think all the best Wikipedia entries are about pop music. Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. ...

Sports

Baseballs Unwritten Rules Are Bullshit, Says This MLB Pitcher

Posted on June 4, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

When David Ortiz hits a home run, his leisurely trot around the bases is just shy of a professional wrestlers ring entrance. The crowd goes wild, his bat is rai...

Culture/Culture of Science/Side Tracks

Can a Movie About a Library Be Awesome?

Posted on May 23, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Fixin’ to find out. Cold Storage Teaser Trailer from metaLAB(at)Harvard on Vimeo. Out at the Harvard Depository in Southborough, Massachusetts there are m...

Culture

Where Does Tech Go Now? 8 Ideas from Alexis Madrigal

Posted on January 8, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Technology’s biggest product in 2013, observes Atlantic Tech ringleader Alexis Madrigal, was technoanxiety — worries about everything from the NSA (and ho...

Culture

Small Town Noir: One town’s criminal treasures

Posted on December 28, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I wish I could remember who pointed this out on Twitter: Small Town Noir. A wonderland of strange stories and mug shots, from back in the day. On the back of Ha...

Education/Medicine

Does Grouping Students By Ability Work? Be Nice To Know.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

From Today’s Times: Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor With Educators: Though the issue is one of the most frequently studied by education scholar...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/History of science

How Eugenics Gets Legit

Posted on June 8, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

In the wake of the flap over Geoffrey Miller’s fat-shaming, a friend pointed me to a remarkable collection at the Cold Spring Harbor website, the Eugenics...

Brains and Behavior/Culture

Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March (NC Moving Party Track #9)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Ed note: Originally posted March 2012. See note at bottom.] In 1864, in a move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some ...

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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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