The Historical Backdrop of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere: When NASA Finally Opened the Hatch for Women
Long before Joan Goodwin strapped into a shuttle simulator at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, before…
Francis Collins Builds the Human Genome; Francis Collins Builds an Altar: The Debate His Own Colleagues Refused to Have in Public and What Happened When Jerry Coyne Finally Did
Francis Collins sequenced the human genome and then said it pointed to God. Jerry Coyne spent years publicly dismantling that claim. Here’s what the debate actually showed — and didn’t.
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.
