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Here is a selection of my writings on-line, many, but not all, of which are about science and technology - Ben
B.R. Cohen's Annals of Science
"Muscle and Flow", a contribution to the Convergences series by Lawrence Weschler
Blacksburg and Biography, written after April 16th about formative years in Blacksburg. Appeared at The Morning News.
Interview with Environmental Journalist, Berkeley Professor, NYT Magazine Writer, and Agro-Ethicist of sorts, Michael Pollan, from The Believer, April 2007
Interview with Philosopher and Historian of Sexuality Arnold Davidson, from The Believer, May 2006
"How Long Does it Take to Dress Your Monkey?"
"Hoping for a Safe Return" -- A saga of tax returns, the IRS fine print, and kidnapping (You can hear this too, being read for PRI's Weekend America)
"World-Historical Cheneys", also appears in Mountain Man Dance Moves , the McSweeney's Book of Lists
Interview with the Grandmother of the Philosophy of Biology, Marjorie Grene, from The Believer, March 2005
Songbook Essays: Phish's "Bathtub Gin", an essay, the best on this page, maybe second best, ostensibly about the Bathtub Gin played at Radio City in Spring 2000, but also an autobiography
"Historical Theories Gone Wild!"
"To Die Softly", an essay on the action film genre -- this is a review of the action sequence in My Dinner with Andre which appeared at The Morning News
"On Tour with Bob Edwards", an essay about the last Bob Edwards tour. What a ride. A lot of us are still reeling.
"How He Spent his Summer Vacation", an interview with my friend Jonson Miller, Peace Activist and Summer [2003] Jail Inhabitant
"If Game-show hosts were guests on their own shows" (pseudonymously)
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