http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://calitreview.com/5708 http://calitreview.com/5708#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:32:49 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5708 http://calitreview.com/5708/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/5060 http://calitreview.com/5060#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:48:09 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5060 http://calitreview.com/5060/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4604 http://calitreview.com/4604#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:25 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=4604 http://calitreview.com/4604/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/2768 http://calitreview.com/2768#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:39:17 +0000 Judith Harris http://calitreview.com/?p=2768 http://calitreview.com/2768/feed 7 http://calitreview.com/1816 http://calitreview.com/1816#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:07:04 +0000 Robert Poole http://calitreview.com/?p=1816 http://calitreview.com/1816/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/1714 http://calitreview.com/1714#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:15:25 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/?p=1714 http://calitreview.com/1714/feed 13 http://calitreview.com/964 http://calitreview.com/964#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:43:47 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com/?p=964 Old Testament or the Iliad — which, emanating from the brain’s right hemisphere, told an individual what to do in circumstances of novelty or stress.]]> http://calitreview.com/964/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/804 http://calitreview.com/804#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:29:10 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=804 http://calitreview.com/804/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/790 http://calitreview.com/790#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:41:45 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/?p=790 http://calitreview.com/790/feed 25 http://calitreview.com/727 http://calitreview.com/727#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:21:30 +0000 Sari Kawana http://calitreview.com/?p=727 http://calitreview.com/727/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/606 http://calitreview.com/606#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:11:47 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/topics/mathematics/606/ Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John Koza, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He developed a system of linked computers that he calls an “invention machine.” The machine has been awarded a United States Patent (!), the “first intellectual property protections ever granted to a nonhuman designer.”]]> http://calitreview.com/606/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/278 http://calitreview.com/278#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:27:35 +0000 Garan Holcombe http://calitreview.com/2007/11/01/what-is-intelligence-by-james-r-flynn/ The Bell Curve, to describe the enormous gains in IQ scores in the 20th century from one generation to the next, which James R Flynn, Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, did so much to measure and document.]]> http://calitreview.com/278/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/261 http://calitreview.com/261#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:18:19 +0000 Vikram Johri http://calitreview.com/2007/09/26/proust-and-the-squid-by-maryanne-wolf/ http://calitreview.com/261/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/260 http://calitreview.com/260#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:52 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/2007/09/24/michael-behe-on-the-edge-of-evolution/ http://calitreview.com/260/feed 263 http://calitreview.com/241 http://calitreview.com/241#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:22:17 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/2007/07/23/out-of-thin-air-dinosaurs-birds-and-earth%e2%80%99s-ancient-atmosphere-by-peter-douglas-ward/ Out of Thin Air comes as close to meriting the label as anything I’ve seen of late. Paleontology does involve a lot of detail work, from tiny picks and toothbrushes to radioactive dating; however, some details may not only inform but overturn and reinvent the much bigger picture.]]> http://calitreview.com/241/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/199 http://calitreview.com/199#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:41:47 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/empire-of-the-stars-by-arthur-i-miller/ http://calitreview.com/199/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/198 http://calitreview.com/198#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:18:41 +0000 Nandan Datta http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/the-electric-life-of-michael-faraday-by-alan-hirshfeld/ http://calitreview.com/198/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/193 http://calitreview.com/193#comments Sun, 27 May 2007 03:58:09 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com//2007/05/27/gen%c2%b7e%c2%b7sis-the-scientific-quest-for-life%e2%80%99s-origin-by-robert-m-hazen/ http://calitreview.com/193/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/138 http://calitreview.com/138#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:17:36 +0000 Pedro Blas Gonzalez http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/many-worlds-in-one-the-search-for-other-universes-by-alex-vilenkin/ http://calitreview.com/138/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/137 http://calitreview.com/137#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:14:20 +0000 Sam Stowe http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/the-lobotomist-a-maverick-medical-genius-and-his-tragic-quest-to-rid-the-world-of-mental-illness-by-jack-el-hai/ http://calitreview.com/137/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/102 http://calitreview.com/102#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:08:35 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/bedrock-writers-on-the-wonders-of-geology-by-lauret-e-savoy-eldridge-m-moores-judith-e-moores/ http://calitreview.com/102/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/99 http://calitreview.com/99#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:52:39 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/the-athena-factor-by-w-michael-gear/ http://calitreview.com/99/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/80 http://calitreview.com/80#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:16:06 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-michael-ruse/ http://calitreview.com/80/feed 20 http://calitreview.com/53 http://calitreview.com/53#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:23:41 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com//interviews/tim-flannery-discusses-global-warming/ http://calitreview.com/53/feed 10 http://calitreview.com/52 http://calitreview.com/52#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:05:53 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-biographer-james-connor/ http://calitreview.com/52/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/51 http://calitreview.com/51#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:47:58 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/the-strange-world-of-quantum-entanglement/ http://calitreview.com/51/feed 82 http://calitreview.com/31 http://calitreview.com/31#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:13:39 +0000 Nandan Datta http://calitreview.com//essays/goethe-and-tagore-unexpected-interests/ http://calitreview.com/31/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/22 http://calitreview.com/22#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:33:55 +0000 Gerard J. 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