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dobbspic Author and journalist David Dobbs writes on science, medicine, nature, education, and culture for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. He is also the author of three books (see below), most recently Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. For more on him and his work, see About or his website.
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Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.
Oliver Sacks calls it "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today."
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The Great Gulf
An epistemological pissing match disguised as fish fight.

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The Northern Forest (with Richard Ober)
An environmental debate misses the most essential relationships in the ecosystem at hand.

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Design (and design blogs) that hold up well

Posted on: January 9, 2009 11:55 AM, by David Dobbs

The bloggers at the design firm Pentagram know how to write a lede:

During the financially dismal 2008 holiday shopping season, one product held up nicely: bras.





Some great design worth exploring there, from the outfit that did the signage for the front of the Times building and the Atlantic redesign.

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