Category: Science

• Review: The Shortest History of Eugenics

  Actually, the shortest history of eugenics is “don’t!”.

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  November 5, 2024

• Review: The Light Eaters

  It’s like Betteridge’s law of headlines, the book.

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  October 3, 2024

• Review: The Forbidden Garden

  Would you starve someone now in the hope of preventing others from starving in the future?

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  October 1, 2024

• Review: Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery

  Wait, the gay rat factory wasn’t the weird part of his research?!?

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  September 19, 2024

• Review: Just Following Orders

  The experiment requires that you read this review.

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  September 12, 2024

• Review: Excited Delirium

  I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. – S. J. Gould

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  September 5, 2024

• Review: Heart of the Hive

  This review contains less than 0.04% bee-related puns.

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  August 27, 2024

• Review: The Krebiozen Hoax

  What if a Just Asking Questions guy was, in good faith, just asking questions?

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  August 15, 2024

• Review: Macroevolutionaries

  Or an Intellectual Genealogy on Bayside’s Own Polymath Macroevolutionaries Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay GouldBy Bruce Lieberman & Niles Eldredge (Columbia University Press) Macroevolutionaries is a book of essays on topics in macroevolution. It is not a survey but focused on the work of the authors, or more specifically the theories that,…

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  August 6, 2024

• Retro Review: The Population Bomb

  Or why not to write a book based on a taxi ride.

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  July 14, 2024