The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, one of the best writers of creative non-fiction since John McPhee invented the genre has followed his eye-opening …
Category Archives: Science
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of …
Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
During a long quarantine such as we are now undergoing it’s a good time for stories, as the locked-up Florentines …
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon …
Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?
Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the …
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
A surprise gift from a brother on a recent birthday was Jonathan White’s 2017 Tides: The Science and Spirit of …
Baboons and You: A Natural History of Peace
Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a …
The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In …
A Matter of Degrees
These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out. This …
Science Friday: Whale Story
From time to time it is good to talk about the evolution of a species instead of devolution into warring, …