Science & Technology

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

• Troubles with Three-ism: Body, Mind, and Soul

  Owen Flanagan reviews George Makari's "Soul Machine."

  Owen FlanaganNov 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Science & Technology

• Creators of the World Unite

  "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" is more than a Creators' Rights for Dummies: it provides the elements for a class-based theory of creative production.

  McKenzie WarkNov 25, 2015

  • Politics

  • Science & Technology

• Stories as Diagnosis

  Terrence Holt's stated goal is to give "a truthful account" of "what remained mysterious, and often troubling, about the process of becoming a doctor."

  Brian GittisNov 24, 2015

  • Fiction

  • Science & Technology

• The University of Nowhere: The False Promise of “Disruption”

  Kevin Carey’s "The End of College" is the latest book to seize the imagination of disrupters. It touts massive changes for post-secondary education.

  Frank PasqualeNov 12, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• Internet Privacy: Stepping Up Our Self-Defense Game

  Despite all the coverage "privacy" gets in the post-Snowden world, many of us don’t see what all the fuss is about.

  Evan SelingerNov 10, 2015

  • Science & Technology

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  Hide and Seek: The Problem with Obfuscation

  Brunton and Nissenbaum outline a variety of techniques of obfuscation that ordinary people can deploy to camouflage themselves.

  Rob HorningNov 10, 2015

  • Politics

  • Science & Technology

• The Nature of Wilderness

  Jennie Goode reviews Summer Brennan's "The Oyster War," a book about the preservation of wilderness.

  Jennie GoodeOct 25, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• Break It Open

  Rocco Samuele reviews Paul Hoffman's "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers."

  Rocco SamueleOct 17, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• Is There Need for “The New Wild”?: The New Ecological Quarrels

  Pearce takes aim at the edifice that has coalesced around conservation efforts in the face of invasion.

  Liam HeneghanOct 15, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• Is There Still Hope?: A Climatologist’s Perspective

  Will we tackle this problem in time?

  Michael MannOct 6, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• The Spyglass and the Astronomer: Seeing Galileo in Perspective

  Seeing Galileo from his own perspective is rather like looking just once through his telescope.

  Paula FindlenOct 3, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

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  The Siege Approach to Conservation

  By promoting a siege approach to conservation, in which humans are the enemy, books such as "The Annihilation of Nature" are part of the problem.

  Fred PearceSep 16, 2015

  • Science & Technology