Writing tagged: ‘science’

Making predictions

Chalk another one up for science!
Book Review: ‘One Midsummer’s Day’ by Mark Cocker

Swifts and the story of life on earth.
LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’

On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
HebWeb interview

I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts

Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa

How small experiments led to a big theory.
Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’

Mark E Smith • Alan Bennett • Carl Linnaeus • Ronald Blythe • human evolution • flu epidemics • Great Exhibition of the North • Charles Darwin • insects • introverts • Virginia Woolf • John Tyndall • and more…
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos

How predictable is evolution?
Orion’s belt-buckle

In celebration of my adopted star.
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett

15,000 years of urban life and death.
Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard

Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.