H… Did you happen to read a Times “opinionator” piece by Errol Morris, “It Was All Started By A Mouse,” in January of this year. Now he has just begun a new Times series called: “The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is.” Interesting. I thought of you, and what you [...]
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June 22, 2010We’re much more alike than we are different.
July 28, 2009From The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2009, Message in a Genome by Matthew Stremlau
Darwin at 200
February 12, 2009On the occasion of Darwin’s 200th. Would that all our ideas bore such fruit. “Perhaps one day we will not call evolution “Darwinism.” After all, we do not call classical mechanics “Newtonism.” But that raises the question of whether a biological Einstein is possible, someone who demonstrates that Darwin’s theory is a limited case. What [...]
Steven Pinker’s The Moral Instinct
December 19, 2008My son and I continue to talk about equality and religion. My interest was always to know if our respect for one another, our giving value and importance to each individual life, if this stemmed from religious teachings, or from our very nature. I still tend to believe the latter. Now that same son has [...]
