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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
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William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
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Guest Posts
5 Amazing Things You Need To Know About 3D Modeling With Maya
June 7, 20263D Modeling With Maya what you need to know. Maya by Autodesk is one of the...
Linguistics
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
June 7, 2026Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...
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Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
June 7, 2026I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
Israel
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
June 6, 2026Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
Fiction Reviews
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
June 6, 2026The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
Fiction Reviews
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
June 5, 2026One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
Mathematics
Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
June 5, 2026"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
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Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
June 5, 2026I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
June 5, 2026The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
Theatre
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
June 5, 2026And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
Vietnam
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
June 5, 2026Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably...
Politics
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 4, 2026Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Terrors on Terra
June 4, 2026How grotesque it must have sounded to a child, and how frightening. Outdoors, the sun of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
June 4, 2026In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Philosophy
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen
June 4, 2026"By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human...
Biography
Is There a Doctor in the House?
June 3, 2026She smoked a lot, but she laughed a lot too. I could easily support her, I...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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History of Madness by Michel Foucault
June 3, 2026By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 17, 2026With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
May 29, 2026"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
Japan
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
May 30, 2026This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...
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