Elephants, PTSD, and the neurology of mood
Now here's a provoking notion: PTSD in elephants .In an arresting article in Seed, Gay Bradshaw, a professor at Oregon...
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I write on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. (Find clips here.) Right now I'm writing my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which explores the hypothesis that the genetic roots some of our worst problems and traits — depresison, hyperaggression, violence, antisocial behavior — can also give rise to resilience, cooperation, empathy, and contentment. The book expands on my December 2009 Atlantic article exploring these ideas.
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years.
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June 21, 2006
June 9, 2006
A fresh take on how to answer the "partisan takeover of biology"
The Public Library of Science — the wonderful open-access journal — features a fine, thought-provoking piece by staffer Lisa Gross...
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June 8, 2006
"Nature" tries open peer review
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In a promising experiment, Nature reports that it is beginning a trial in which it will evaluate submitted papers through...
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June 6, 2006
Climate change as a test of empiricism and secular democracy
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The cover of the May 27 New Scientist bluntly asks, regarding climate change, “What Does It Take?” What will...
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June 4, 2006
Wild birds do .., no wait, they don't ... well. maybe they DO spread H5N1
Category: Science
Wild birds have helped transmit the deadly H5N1 bird flu across Eurasia, a meeting of 300 scientists at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) concluded on Wednesday. But killing them to prevent further spread of the disease is not the answer, they warn.I wrote an article about this in Audubon this spring, concluding from the divided and tenuous opinions and facts then that wild birds almost certainly did help spread avian flu.
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