Category: Books
Evolution’s New Narrative: Life is a Decentralized, Horizontal Network, Not Merely a Centralized, Hierarchical Tree
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not…
Brothers in Arms or Just Good Friends?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to…
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t….
The Ecology of Collective Behavior
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews…
Economics for the Age of TikTok
Rachel Dec in LA Review of Books: IN 2022, AS THE labor market thrived, a…
A Gentleman in Moscow Has a Little Bit of Everything
Bill Gates in Gates Notes: Melinda and I sometimes read the same book at the same…
Tackling the Riddle of Free Will
Emily Cataneo in Undark: IT’S 1922. You’re a scientist presented with a hundred youths who, you’re told,…
Philosophy Was Once Alive
Pranay Sanklecha at Aeon: ‘Why did you decide to study philosophy?’ asked the Harvard professor,…
The 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
by Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks Daily: The following writers each picked 10 books for…
The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed
Louis Bayard at The NY Times: In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,”…
The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Fitzroy Morrissey at Literary Review: Shortly before his death in 1974, R C Zaehner, Spalding…
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future
Sveta McShane in Singularity Hub: Over the last several decades, the digital revolution has changed nearly…