Sunday, May 11, 2014

Svante Paabo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (2014)

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If the prospect of future climate change poses difficult problems for estimating the impact on the extinction of species (see previous post ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

William Nordhaus, The Climate Casino (2013)

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As previous posts both adumbrate and expose, the human brain does not always successfully sort fact from fiction, but most of the time it do...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

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Another rereading of a great novel decades later. Albert Camus' plague is a metaphor for everything that the human conscience is typi...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599)

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There is some irony in the current thinking that the origins of human propensity to moral or altruistic behavior emerged as a result of grou...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

William Shakespeare, Richard III (1592)

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I usually discover something new in rereading a book I have not touched in a long time.  With the passage of time, there is inevitably a di...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Daniel Kelly, Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust (2011)

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I have an aversion to lima beans.  aver·sion,   noun \ə- ˈ vər-zhən, -shən\                                                : a strong ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Jose Saramago, The Lives of Things (2013, 1995)

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At a very early age, children learn the difference between artifacts and living things: the inanimate and the animate.  In fact, one of the ...