Thursday, March 28, 2013

Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)

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Edward O. Wilson's research on eusociality  led him to identify the nest as a common attribute among the eusocial species.  Although no...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Edward Humes, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul (2008)

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Deception and religion have been joined at the hip for a very long time, perhaps as long as religion has existed in human culture given that...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Jose Saramago, Small Memories (2009)

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Memory is fragile.  (See September 20, 2011 post ).  Jose Saramago's honest account of his memories of some events in his life when he ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

John Searle, Making The Social World (2010)

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The substance of John Searle's most recent book, Making the Social World , is largely covered by the last chapter of his 2008 selection...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (2010)

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Imagine that approximately 160,000 - 200,000 years ago, a huge asteroid miles across is hurtling toward the earth  as the earth's gravit...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (1875)

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The subjects of personal identity and group identity have surfaced in a couple of previous posts in this blog,  (see April 1, 2012 ,   Decem...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Jose Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)

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While I was reading Jose Saramago 's  Baltasar and Blimunda , Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' commentary published in The New York Times tit...
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