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David Dobbs writes on science, medicine, nature, and culture.
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Author and journalist David Dobbs writes on science, medicine, and culture for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Scientific American Mind, and other publications; "Buried Answers," one of his features for the Times Magazine, will appear in Houghton Mifflin's esteemed
Recent Posts
- This Blog Has Moved
- Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- Big Pharma, the play -- I'm not making this up
- The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- Paths to Enrichment: How Better Digs & Fatherhood Enrich the Brain
- Naptime! Read this and have a coronary ... or take a nap. It's your decision.
- The Frontal Cortex : Betting on Awareness
- Who You Gonna Call -- W or Lucky Jack? Deliberating Decision-Making
- Now that's one superanimated cell
Recent Comments
- Jim Lippard on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- TJW on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- Christopher on Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- Dave Munger on Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- David Dobbs on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Kiki on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Kiki on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Organic Chemistry on Grid Cells: Putting rats in their places and (maybe) meaning in life
- GS Chandy on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- David Dobbs on Big Pharma Out of Bounds Again
BOOKS by David Dobbs
Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.
Oliver Sacks calls it "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today.”
The Great Gulf
An epistemological argument disguised as fish fight.
The Northern Forest (with Richard Ober)
An environmental debate misses the most essential relationships in the ecosystem at hand.
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David Dobbs writes for the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American Mind, Slate, Audubon, and other publications. “Buried Answers”, one of his features for the Times Magazine, will be included in Houghton Mifflin’s 2006 Best American Science and Nature Writing, due this fall.
His latest book is Reef Madness (Pantheon, 2005). Oliver Sacks calls Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today.”
Dobbs is also author of the The Great Gulf, The Northern Forest (with Richard Ober). More information and links are at his website, daviddobbs.net
