The Week's Best: Evolution, healthcare reform, clever apes, and Cheever in his undies
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Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear
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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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Gleanings - mind & brain, law and war, media, bad trains
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Mind, brain, and body (including those gene things) While reading Wolpert's review of Greenberg's book, I found that the Guardian has a particularly rich trove of writings and resources on depression , some of it drawing on resources at BMJ (the journal formerly known as the British Medical Journal). ... The backchannel is the twitter stream that audience members now rather routinely produce while a conference speaker or panel holds forth at the front of the room; it carries hideous dangers for the unwary, unprepared, or just plain unlikeable speaker.
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Live at the Barbicon! Zebra finches play some Jimi
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it doesn't get better than this. The part at about 1.45 where he gets the stick stuck in the strings: Really takes off there. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/89Kz8Nxb-Bg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/89Kz8Nxb-Bg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> © Extracts from Ariane Michel's film, Les Oiseaux de Céleste.
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Luscious: Architecture via film, the 3d & 7th arts. x
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This is quite beautiful.
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Neuron Culture's top five from December
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The month's goodies included orchids and dandelions; more of those; Shakespeare; toddlers in many permutations; and, naturally, a bit of stress.
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Avatar smackdown!
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I respectfully differ from Mr. Lehrer: In Avatar, Cameron has not deftly realized the potential of his medium; he has deftly exploited its crudest powers of visual seduction while leaving its full potential untapped.
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Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters
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In honor of its pure strangeness
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Miniatur Wunderland -- Your ultimate toy train village, inc 'houses of bad reputation'
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Maybe best argument yet for expanding the US rail system.
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Splendid sea photos by Nick Cobbing
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Perhaps because I so enjoyed the time I spent at sea learning about fish, I particularly enjoyed this collection of Nick Cobbing's photos of ice, sea, and people who work them — scientists, fishermen, adventurers
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Brandon Keim on The Language of Horses
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In a few slender leg bones and fragments of milk-stained pottery, archaeologists recently found evidence of one of the more important developments in human history: the domestication of horses. Unearthed from a windswept plain in Kazakhstan, the remains were about 5500 years old, and suggested that a nomadic people now called the Botai had learned to ride a creature that had captured mankind's imagination thousands of years earlier.
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