Skip to content
Neuron Culture
David Dobbs on science, culture, sports, & other wonders
  • Brains & Behavior
  • Culture
  • Genetics
  • Readings
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Medicine
  • Selected work
  • About

Tag: literature

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 ...

Anthropology/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Genetics/Medicine/Readings/Side Tracks

Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading

Posted on May 21, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  T. Delene Beeland’s essay on post-baby depression is among of the best such I’ve read. I judged myself against other mothers. It seemed everyone cared fo...

Uncategorized

Glitter in the Net, 20 May 2014

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

Shiny things from the day: In Arrested development, at Mosaic, Virginia Hughes looks at a handful of girls who won’t age and an aging scientist who’s determined...

Books/Culture/Writing

Peter Matthiessen In Paradise

Posted on April 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Perhaps so. Rivendell Books, here in Montpelier, didn’t waste anytime putting this where it belongs, right out front. I think of Matthiessen late a...

Brains and Behavior/Readings/The Orchid & The Dandelion

Uncommon Reading – Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf on Hemingway

Posted on March 14, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

One of the underrated pleasures of the internet is all the old stuff we can now read — goodies that 20 years ago you could read only by going to a major l...

Biology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

Novels Change Your Brain. So What?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

A recent study found that reading novels appears to alter one’s brain connectivity — a revelation that immediately spurred a lot of coverage, and I can se...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Readings/Writing

Virginia Woolf Was a Plant Sensitive and Tough

Posted on August 22, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

A glorious find for any Virginia Woolf fan. For a Virginia Woolf fan writing a book about a scientifico-botanical metaphor about the nature of sensitivity and f...

Uncategorized

George Clooney Robs A Bank With a Lie & A Smile, and Other Scenes In Media Res

Posted on February 16, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Elmore Leonard likes to start scenes right in the middle of the scene, as he does, more or less, in the scene above from Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of...

Uncategorized

Tortoise Sex, Via the Eyes of Lucky Jack Aubrey

Posted on January 13, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

One of the many pleasures of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, which follow through 20.5 volumes the Napoleonic-era adventures of British Roy...

Uncategorized

Do We Need New Traits to Live Within Limits? Revkin Asks. Lopez Responds, from 1986.

Posted on January 2, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

To start the new year, Andy Revkin, over at Dot Earth at the New York Times, wondered what traits we humans might be able to develop so that we “fall forw...

Posts navigation

1 2 Next »

About

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.

Currently most popular

  • When The Rope Breaks at a Hanging
  • How To Pick Apart Great Writing: Joan Didion on Ernest Hemingway
  • Selected work
  • About "The Orchid and the Dandelion"
  • Virginia Woolf is happy, but not with D.H. Lawrence, not at all
  • Virginia Woolf Takes a Walk, Finds a Novel
  • Climate Change Enters Its Blood Sucking Phase
  • About
  • "Die, Selfish Gene, Die" Has Evolved
  • 'Die, Selfish Gene, Die,' with links

Posts by tag

Arsenic baseball Behavior Behavior of Scientists Books Brains and Behavior Brains and minds Carl Zimmer Charles Darwin Culture Culture of science depression Ed Yong Ernest Hemingway Evolution Genetics genetic testing Healthcare policy healthcare reform history of science Jonah Lehrer Journalism literature Marc Hauser Medicine Mental Health Music Neuroscience open access open science PepsiGate pharma Politics Psychiatry Psychology PTSD Public health Reading Science science journalism scientific misconduct scientific publishing Sports Virginia Woolf Writing

The Twitter

My Tweets

Get Neuron Culture by Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
© 2024 Neuron Culture
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy