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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...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sports
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....
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...
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...
Environment
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...
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