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An Academic Says Goodbye To All That

Posted on January 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

On seeing when it’s time to say goodbye to something you love, because there’s so much you hate about it. Very fine piece by @scicurious. I could ha...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Readings

Chickens, William Blake, and Why The Limits of Science Don’t Matter

Posted on July 6, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’ve been slowly reading Roy Bedichek’s splendid and horrifically overlooked Adventures With A Texas Naturalist —  a 50-year-old book  fresh as any ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

How The Deniers Win: Question Motives

Posted on June 17, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Updated 06/17/2013 11:16am EDT (see tail end of story) James Gilbert has the goods over at The Conversation: Climate sceptics have won, Martin Wolf lamented in ...

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Glowing Maps of Scientific Collaboration

Posted on January 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

This lovely map of scientific collaboration is done by research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrixm who examined scientific collaboration around the w...

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Unveiling Middle East Science – A Reading List

Posted on June 24, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

June 26: See key additions at bottom. For those heading to or curious about the World Conference of Science Journalists starting on Monday in Doha, here’s...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...

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The Wrong Stuff: NASA Dismisses Arsenic Critique Because Critical Priest Not Standing on Altar

Posted on December 7, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A NASA spokesperson has dismissed a major critique of the Science arsenic bug paper based not on the criticism’s merits, but on its venue — it appeared in...

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Is That Arsenic-Loving Bug — Formerly an Alien — a Dog?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

You know that arsenic-loving bacteria briefly mistaken for an alien? The bug, which roiled the science press earlier this week when it rode an unusually high an...

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Why Publishing the Paper is Only Half the Scientist’s Job

Posted on September 22, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The scientific paper is a wonderful thing. So how is it holding science back? I’ve got a guest post over at the Guardian science  blog network pondering j...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Guardian announces new blog network and scidom over the blogosphere

Posted on September 1, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Guardian launched a new blog network yesterday, with a strong lineup: GrrlScientist covering matters evo and orni (bird lovers, take note), Evan Harris cove...

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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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