Virginia Woolf Was a Plant Sensitive and Tough
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...
Tag: orchid hypothesis
The Agony of Editing Virginia Woolf’s Early Journals. Plus Welty on Woolf on Hemingway.
I’m having a rich time bouncing about Virginia Woolf: A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, edited by Mitchell Leaska. This one-volume c...
Orchids & Dandelions Abloom (Repost)
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-bloom by David Dobbs Originally posted March 2012* A few years ago, Arial Knafo, a psychologist a...
Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March (NC Moving Party Track #9)
[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 ...
The Depression Map: Genes, Culture, Environment, and a Side of Pathogens
This post, originally published 14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...
A Beautiful, Conflicted Genome, All in the Mind and On the Radio
Australia RadioNational’s “All in the Mind” program has long been a favorite of mine, so it was a pleasure last week to be on the program disc...
Upstate NY: Good Place to Talk Genes & Writing
This coming Monday and Tuesday, March 26 and 27, I’ll be giving talks on science and writing at Binghamton University, hosted by David Sloan Wilson and th...
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-Bloom
Author’s: This post is an expansion of a feature I published a few weeks ago in New Scientist. It draws from research for a book I’m now writing, Th...
Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis
As faithful readers know, I’m working on a book, provisionally titled The Orchid and the Dandelion and likely to be published next year, about the orchid-...
Tiger Moms and Orchid Children
I thought I’d heard enough about Tiger Moms, but perked up when I came across Tiger Moms and Orchid Kids, by Sam Gridley. Gridley considers how presumably...