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The Slippery Search for Creativity
Dan Falk reviews two new books on the cause of creativity.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour on climate change, the earth as termite mound, and why he only drinks Burgundy.
Present at the Destruction: Humanity’s Success in Ruining Nature
This unholy alliance of producers, consumers, and parochially focused governments is sleepwalking the Earth off the climate cliff. On "The Water Will Come."
Listening to the Dolphins: Leo Szilard on Nuclear War
When a nuclear physicist turns to fiction.
Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race
Safiya Umoja Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression” explores how racial bias informs and shapes the very platform we laud as radically democratizing.
Dangerous Bullshit
In American politics, we aren’t witnessing an unprecedented outbreak of lying. Another term is more appropriate: bullshit.
Peter Thiel’s Unfortunate World: On “The Know-It-Alls” by Noam Cohen
A columnist takes a close look at Silicon Valley and finds it repulsive.
Keeping the Darwinian Faith
A review of Michael Ruse’s book on the religion of scientism.
From Conflict to Dialogue and All the Way Back. And Then Back Again.
Yves Gingras responds to Peter Harrison's review of his book "Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue," and Harrison offers a rebuttal.
Darwin on Endless Trial
Morten Høi Jensen weighs two takes on Darwin’s legacy.
Provocations
How YouTube Blew It
YouTube just looks like they're trying to play catch-up to Netflix, and it’s sad.
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