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Reef Madness 8: A Dissipated, Low-Minded Charles Darwin

Posted on August 10, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

This is the eighth installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. (Earlier installments are listed at bottom.) Here we meet Charles Darwin — first he experiences the thrilling geology of Chile, and then, in a flashback, as a young man who showed little promise […]

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Delightful Shuttle-launch Vid mashes NASA with Eisenstein

Posted on March 4, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Karen James, who someday will become the first person to sail on both the Beagle and a spacecraft, created this fetchingly geeky, giddy video (gideo?) recording her and her friends waiting and then watching the Discovery launch. James is a shameless space geek anyway, and took special interest here because the Discovery contained a friend […]

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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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