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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.
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Category: Brains and minds
Good times never seemed so good, indeed. I would never have imagined what an impossibly infectious, joyful thing that could be. It was the most incredible large-group social event I've ever been a part of.
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Category: Brains and minds
I had the pleasure to spend some time with Sacks while working on a couple stories, and he once gave me a book about Alexander Agassiz because he liked my book about Agassiz -- and I'm happy to see him exert his usual charm and humor here in this Stewart segment.
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Category: Brains and minds
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Category: Art
Well, the virus has spread! At Rock-It Science, March 3 in NYC, LeDoux and his band, the Amygdaloids (LeDoux pretty much owns the amygdala via his work on fear mechanisms) are to be joined on March 3 in NYC by other musical scientists-would-be-rock-stars, science bands, and science writers...
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Category: Brains and minds
's Mozart's birthday. We've been indulging in some Don Giovanni here amid (but inside, protected from) the snow. But for multimedia instead of fireside consumption, I thought this effortlessly electric encore by Heifetz would serve nicely.
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Category: Music
Neil Young at HuffPo. Life is good.
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Category: Digital culture
Caleb Carr on why he remains pessimistic about reading despite the recent National Endowment of the Arts report showing a reversal last year in a 25-year decline in reading. It's a good consideration of several ways i which the data might be a mismeasure or a misleading anomaly.
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Category: Digital culture
1. Andrew Sullivan trashed Bono for his Times column (judge it yourself and summarize it in a contest if you'd...
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Category: Music
Beethoven showed up 238 years ago today. No one else, no one else ... My violin teacher used to tell...
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Category: Digital culture
Beautiful -- YouTube and Carnegie Hall are holding online auditions for the "world's' first collaborative online orchestra": In short,...
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