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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.
You're encouraged to check out my third book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career; subscribe to Neuron Culture by email; see more of my work at my main website; or track Twitter feed, my Google Reader shared items, or my Tumblr log, which gets it all.
August 19, 2009
Category: Journalism & media
Hang in for the question at 5:55: He asks Obama what he does about "getting bullied a lot." Obama: "I wasn't bullied too much in school." "Can you dunk?" "Not anymore." "Would you like to become my homeboy?" "You bet."
Posted by David Dobbs at 12:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 11, 2009
Category: Healthcare policy
Crows, replicating the behavior of one of their ancestors in Aesops fables, figured out how to "raise the water level in a lab container by dropping stones in it to retrieve a worm floating on the surface."
Posted by David Dobbs at 7:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 2, 2009
Category: PTSD
Our current approach to post-combat distress is failing just as completely as the Rumsfled approach did. But in the halls that count, there's no sign a change in thinking.
Posted by David Dobbs at 10:35 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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