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David Dobbs on science, nature, and culture.
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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Category: Matters military
"There's a reason that counterinsurgency mantras include Get Off The FOB and Don't Commute To The Fight. The greater the distance -- not just physically, but also culturally -- from a populace, the fewer opportunities U.S. troops have to demonstrate to that populace that U.S. actions are in their interest."
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Category: Food and Drink
Now this makes my day: I've been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award. Beard, foodees know, was a...
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Category: Culture of science
Looks like a special effects lab, but it's a bakery that makes bread in the shape (and look) of body...
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Category: Food and Drink
Vintage Trillin:By Meat Alone: The Best Texas BBQ in the WorldThe first time Burka went to Lexington to check out...
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Category: Brains and minds
Personally I am glad to read this: First came the fine news that red wine may help prevent Alzheimer's. Now a 20-year study (admittedly a bit flabby) of 125.000 health-care in Spain found that drinking 2 or more cups of java a day may help prevent heart disease.
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