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The Nation, October 8, 2007
See the post below for an explanation of what I’m doing. The cover story is a love letter to Keith Olbermann by Marvin Kitman; several pieces deal with the likely impact of the Iraq war on the 2008...
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Seven recent issues of The Nation
Ever since I started writing here, I’ve been referring to “Mrs Acilius.” Until last month, that was a bit of an exaggeration, as I had not actually married the lady in question. We tied the knot 12...
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The Funny Times, August 2009
Ray Lesser’s “Your Inner Fish” includes these two memorable paragraphs: In his book Your Inner Fish, [Professor Neil] Shubin describes many of the recent amazing discoveries in paleontology and genetic...
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The Economist, 5 September 2009
I can’t resist quoting some lines of verse that appear in this week’s obituary for Stanley Robertson, a Scotsman who made his living filleting fish in a cheap eatery in Aberdeen and who made his name...
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A planet where apes evolved from men?
He had it right! This story was reported in our local paper under a headline reading “Apes may have descended from men.” Dr Zaius wouldn’t have been surprised- that’s what he said all along. More...
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The Evolution of the Evolution Cartoon
Though it may seem otherwise, I do not in fact spend all of my time reading Language Log. But here’s a short essay that radio personality Richard Howland-Bolton linked to in a comment on a post there.
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The Nation, 10 May 2010
Jerry Coyne asks why so many Americans who are capable of accepting the germ theory of disease in a perfectly calm state of mind become so agitated by the theory of evolution by natural selection that...
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Helping others, hurting oneself
In a recent issue of The Nation, Miriam Markowitz reviewed a biography of a remarkable figure named George Price. The opening paragraph is an attention-grabber: George Price was born a Jewish...
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Some comments that have appeared on the backup site
I maintain a site on blogspot that consists almost entirely of reposts from this site. This site is a backup, so that I won’t lose too much of my work in case something happens to WordPress. As of...
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