Newton’s Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed
David H. Clark and Stephen P.H. Clark — W.H. Freeman & Co., 2001 Most of…
Fremont, Seattle: The Neighborhood That Zoned Itself into an Identity Crisis and Is Still Arguing About It
Fremont declared itself the ‘Center of the Universe’ in the 1990s. Then Seattle’s upzoning ordinances arrived, and the republic had to decide what it actually wanted to protect.
Suspensions of Perception by Jonathan Crary: A Review
Published in 1999 by MIT Press, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture is…
Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands by Edward J. Larson
Isolation is the oldest teacher. Long before Darwin ever set foot on the Galápagos, those…
Bots: The Origin of New Species — Andrew Leonard (Book Review)
Andrew Leonard wrote Bots: The Origin of New Species in 1997, and almost everything he…
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — What the Book Is Really Asking You to Give Up
Most novels ask you to give up a few hours. War and Peace asks you…
