Aglitter in the net: reading, writing, genes, and leaving your desk
Category: Brains and minds
What caught my eye the last few days
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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.
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Does Shirky's Cognitive Surplus undervalue meatspace?
Category: Journalism & media
The quality of an engagement must count for something, and engagements — whether with media or another person -- aren't automatically more valuable because they occur online.
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Are we living in a neuroculture?
Category: Books
This is obviously a set-up question coming from a blog named Neuron Culture.
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Gleanings: Illusions, genomics, Freud, lighting the brain, and eating alone
Category: Brains and minds
Traveling. But here's what I'm reading during train, plane, and bus rides -- and over meals: Gravity-defying ramps take...
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Gleanings from the past week
Category: Journalism & media
What I didn't get to. MSM stories, blog posts, and tweets cohabitating. Dogs and cats next.
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Gleanings - storms, vegetables, violence, grace, and a correction
Category: Books
As alert reader Alex Witze pointed out , these photos were taken by stormchaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas in 2002 and 2004, and have passed around the net in other guises ever since. ... He has some doozies. You may be shocked but not surprised to hear that Insurance Company Dropped Customers With HIV .
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Patty's Day Roundup
Category: Journalism & media
BoingBoing loves The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs 2009, founded/published by the ever-present Bora Zivkovic and...
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Notables from Out-n-About 03/17/2010 (a.m.)
Category: Brains and minds
Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks
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Eureka! Neuron Culture goes Sally Field
Category: Journalism & media
was thrilled this morning to learn that this humble, erratic blog was named one of Top 30 Science Blogs by Eureka, the new monthly science magazine recently launched by the Times of London.
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Hits of the week past
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
The week's best -- with new features!
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