Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins — Science as the Deepest Kind of Poetry
Keats was drunk when he said it. December 1817, at the painter Benjamin Haydon’s London…
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind — Noam Chomsky
Every decade or so, a book arrives that doesn’t just add to a conversation —…
What an AI Trained Only on Fossils Taught Paleontologists About Bones They Had Already Classified
AI trained on morphological fossil data is re-classifying specimens human experts studied for decades. What happens to natural history when the observer’s eye is replaced by an algorithm?
Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie — When the Student Takes the Teacher’s Idea Further Than the Teacher Intended
Richard Brodie’s Virus of the Mind pushes Dawkins’ meme concept into uncomfortable territory — advertising, cults, religion, and the covert architecture of belief. A review.
The Pale Blue Dot Meets the Burning Bush: Carl Sagan and Pope John Paul II’s Documented Intellectual Convergence and What It Reveals About the Universe’s Two Great Questioners
In 1990, Carl Sagan and Pope John Paul II became unlikely allies on the environment. Their cosmologies couldn’t be more different. Which one prepared us better for cosmic insignificance?
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein — A Review
Most books about difficult ideas are written by people who have spent years learning to…
