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David Dobbs on science, nature, and culture.
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.
Category: Brains and minds
I've got an q&a interview up over at Research Digest, one in their The Bloggers Behind the Blog series. Here are a few key tidbits.
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Category: Books
I like the title. That's Wallace: Smarter than you think. And even smarter than you think or remember Wallace is from last time you read him.
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Category: Nota Bene
I'm 'posed to be writing, really writing (insert argument over what's really writing in comments), but hit so many juicy bits in my morning read today I wanted to share. Here's my eclectic mix for the day:
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Category: Books
This is obviously a set-up question coming from a blog named Neuron Culture.
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Category: Journalism & media
In which David Sloan Wilson and Richard Dawkins lose a race with snails.
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Category: Books
Celeste was the product of emogenics, the breeding programme to optimizes genes and environments for those with heightened sensitivities to external stimuli. She was about as close as anyone had come to the ideal: she was a human nerve-ending in a cotton sundress.
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Category: Books
Our greatest distinction is that we're highly social. Yet in that we've got a lot of company.
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Category: Culture of science
Must we rely on long stories to do science writing's heavy pushing? I'd love to say yes but I must say no — if nothing else, from an return-on-investment perspective.
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from "Would dew believe it: The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in water droplets," at the Daily Mail...
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Category: Public health
Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear
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