Saturday, January 30, 2010

Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of The Bees (1723)

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I first learned of Mandeville when reading Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment , a history of the 17 th century ideas that largely...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Gwyneth Cravens, Power To Save The World (2007)

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Three years ago, I heard a presentation by the head of the Nuclear Energy Institute about the history and then-current status of the nuclear...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Richard Powers, Generosity (2009)

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Two years ago, I read a wonderfully conceived novel by Richard Powers entitled The Echo Maker . Introducing his readers to some of the marve...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson, The Superorganism (2008)

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Human ( September 27 post ) , Mirroring People ( September 18 post ) , and The First Word ( August 31 post ) all stress the social nature ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Michael Gazzaniga, Human (2008)

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In the September 18th post , I concluded that a grander treatment of the subject of mirror neurons should be forthcoming someday, a volume t...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Marco Iacoboni, Mirroring People (2008)

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This important volume might have been titled The Feeling of What Happens (To Other People), but the neurology community would have immediate...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Christine Kenneally, The First Word (2007)

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In my worldview, there are three very big subjects for human inquiry: 1) the realm of the very large --- the universe (and whether there is ...