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I write 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. (Find clips here.)
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years. Oliver Sacks found Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant." Check it out.
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Recent Posts
- Best blog post title of the day: "I will suck your gruyere"
- Roz Chast's "finite filing cabinet model" of memory confirmed
- The Neurocritic: Genomarketing!
- Senator Asks Pentagon To Review Antidepressants
- Raymond Tallis trashtalks some "Neurotrash"
- I'm not vulnerable, just especially plastic. Risk genes, environment, and evolution, in the Atlantic
- Fallows on the Fort Hood shootings: "Don't mean nothing."
- Gorgeous thing of the day: Sky's-eye view of the Maldives & other islands
- "The male approaches with his thumbs (like the Fonz) and mounts the female (like the Fonz.)"
- Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage
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