Science & Technology

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

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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

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  Hard Feelings — Inside Out, Silicon Valley, and Why Technologizing Emotion and Memory Is a Dangerous Idea

  "Inside Out" represents a potentially dangerous line of thinking.

  Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Luke StarkSep 11, 2015

  • Film

  • Science & Technology

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  The More Noise, the More They Listen

  Larry Kramer may be getting older, but his passion, anger, and humor about AIDS is only getting stronger, in his activism, his writings, and his life.

  John-Manuel AndrioteSep 8, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Science & Technology

• A Full Life Inside Each Drop

  On the Move is Oliver Sacks’s most revealing book to date.

  Lauren SlaterSep 7, 2015

  • Science & Technology

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  How Does Twitter Use You?

  How does Twitter use you?

  Julia Carrie Wong, Matt PearceAug 30, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• Competition and Coexistence: A Pushmi-Pullyu Perspective

  Bad science is bad religion: on Greg Graffin's "Population Wars."

  David P. BarashAug 22, 2015

  • Science & Technology