Saturday, November 27, 2010

Matt Ridley, Genome (1999)

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A television show, Law and Order , opens each episode with a narrative line about the role of the police and prosecutors in the criminal jus...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, Pictures of the Mind (2010)

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Until the 1990s, much of what we knew about specific parts of the brain came from clinical observations occurring in the course of evaluatin...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Frans DeWaal, The Age of Empathy (2009)

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Good book. Poorly chosen title. Whether DeWaal chose the title The Age of Empathy or the publisher thrust it upon him, it was clearly insp...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism (2010)

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Is behavior genetically determined? This was a question that was posed in in Richard Powers' Generosity (see November 30, 2009 post ), a...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Jose Saramago, The Notebook (2010)

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A recurrent theme of this blog, and it begins with the very first posts in August 2009, is that units of information are the most fundamenta...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Bobby Thomson et al, The Giants Win the Pennant, The Giants Win the Pennant (1991)

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The term " memoir " applies to this personal story just as it applies to Eric Kandel's In Search of Memory. While the French t...

James S. Hirsch, Willie Mays - The Life, The Legend (2010)

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One of the most interesting attributes of the human mind is memory. We know that the brains of other animals have memory capabilities, but n...