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Author and journalist David Dobbs writes on science, medicine, and culture for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Scientific American Mind, and other publications; "Buried Answers," one of his features for the Times Magazine, will appear in Houghton Mifflin's esteemed
Recent Posts
- This Blog Has Moved
- Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- Big Pharma, the play -- I'm not making this up
- The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- Paths to Enrichment: How Better Digs & Fatherhood Enrich the Brain
- Naptime! Read this and have a coronary ... or take a nap. It's your decision.
- The Frontal Cortex : Betting on Awareness
- Who You Gonna Call -- W or Lucky Jack? Deliberating Decision-Making
- Now that's one superanimated cell
Recent Comments
- Jim Lippard on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- TJW on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- Christopher on Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- Dave Munger on Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and Why I Don't Blog So Much Lately
- David Dobbs on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Kiki on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Kiki on The Scientist : Brain Cell Video
- Organic Chemistry on Grid Cells: Putting rats in their places and (maybe) meaning in life
- GS Chandy on Christopher Hitchens' War on Iraq, Funny Women, and Reason
- David Dobbs on Big Pharma Out of Bounds Again
BOOKS by David Dobbs
Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.
Oliver Sacks calls it "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today.â€
The Great Gulf
An epistemological argument disguised as fish fight.
The Northern Forest (with Richard Ober)
An environmental debate misses the most essential relationships in the ecosystem at hand.
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