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dobbspic I write articles 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, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. My previous books include 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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Patty's Day Roundup

Posted on: March 17, 2010 10:50 AM, by David Dobbs

BoingBoing loves The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs 2009, founded/published by the ever-present Bora Zivkovic and edited by scicurious. Nice pointer to four entires on weightlessness, major medical troubles, vampires v zombies, and how poverty affects brain development.  

Slate's Sarah Wideman reports that Insurance companies deny fertility treatment coverage to unmarried women.

The Bay State's AG finds that Massachusetts Hospital Costs Not Connected To Quality Of Care

Ezra Klein asks a good question: Was Medicare popular when it passed? Apparently not.

Jeff Jarvis asserts that The building block of journalism is no longer the article. I'm not so sure. But more on that later.

Savage Minds files a long but interesting post on Questioning Collapse, the book that skewers Jared Diamond over his work in "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and elsewhere.

And I found it quite satisfying to read about what Frank Rich reads about.

It was also fun to read, in the same Atlantic Wire series about notable writers' daily reading, about Susan Orlean's daily reading, and to see how she came to be on Twitter, where she is now a major force.

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