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 …
Tag Archives: Science
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work
The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …
“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …
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 …
Particle Fever – A Movie to See
Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90 …
Race is Not a Useful Concept
The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is …
Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …
Why Does the World Exist?
On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars …