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 …
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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 …
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
One of the most important scientists of the western tradition, and about whom we in America know little, is …
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 …
A History of Warfare – John Keegan
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
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 …
How War Began – Way Back Then
Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our …
The Story of Stories: Why do We Tell Them? How Long Have We Told Them?
Not everyone can tell a gripping story but telling stories may be as integral to the evolution of Homo sapiens …
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
A recent article in the NY Times Tuesday Science section caught my attention and brought to mind one of the …
Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a …
America: Digging out the Past
Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and …