Stories By Michael
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
February 10, 2025"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
February 8, 2025"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
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Philosophy
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen
February 5, 2025"By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
February 3, 2025"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
February 1, 2025"I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
February 1, 2025"The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
January 31, 2025"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
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Architecture
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
January 31, 2025"I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
January 30, 2025"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
January 25, 2025"Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as...