Painstaking work, posthumous laud
At the opening of the 20th century, an archaeologist unearthed a Bronze Age palace larger than Buckingham on the island of Crete in the ancient city of Knossos. In that...
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Review: “Gulp” by Mary Roach
If someone took a notion to ask author Mary Roach to perform, say, stomach surgery, she would probably also remove much of the large intestine, the gall bladder and at...
‘Noble Savages’ looks at one anthropologist’s life of controversy
In 1998, just before Napoleon Chagnon retired from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he signed a contract to write a book about his life as an anthropologist among...
Neil Shubin on ‘The Universe Within’
As sure as an automobile could not have been built by even the most enterprising Neanderthal, the appearance of humans on Earth could not have occurred without the myriad of...
Neil Shubin on ‘The Universe Within’
As sure as an automobile could not have been built by even the most enterprising Neanderthal, the appearance of humans on Earth could not have occurred without the myriad of...
Oliver Sacks’ ‘Hallucinations’ discusses the brain’s quirky operating system
As often as 40 times a day, "Stephen L." has a sense that everything he is doing, he has done before. Once, to disrupt the constant drag of this déja...
NaNoWriMo puts a novel idea to the test
That's not writing, that's typing. Truman Capote said that about Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and right now, I'd be happy with typing. I could do worse. Heck, I'm already...
NaNoWriMo puts a novel idea to the test
That's not writing, that's typing. Truman Capote said that about Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and right now, I'd be happy with typing. I could do worse. Heck, I'm already...
Oliver Sacks’ ‘Hallucinations’ discusses the brain’s quirky operating system
As often as 40 times a day, "Stephen L." has a sense that everything he is doing, he has done before. Once, to disrupt the constant drag of this déja...
Isn’t Lemony Snicket for kids?
Children in my neighborhood were constantly being orphaned. You go out one afternoon to play, and bam! Your parents are dead in a car accident and you are forced to...