Doubt the Experts

I've returned from Lopez Island and have enjoyed the trip. Besides visiting relatives whom I don't often see, I liked living in a ma...

I finished the book and became increasingly bored with it toward the end. De Waal discusses many aspects of animal behavior, including socia...

I've been working my way through this book slowly, because I haven't found it all that illuminating, though it does clear up some qu...

I'm officially out of winter mode and into spring mode. The transition is so abrupt here that it's almost startling, with the plants...

I've finished the book and will continue where I left off. Milosz's high school was Catholic, and his Roman Catholic background was ...

For a number of reasons my reading has been curtailed a little over the last few days, but I am making progress in  Native Realm , by Czesla...

I've begun to read Native Realm , by Czeslaw Milosz, and though I like Richard Feynman the transition from his memoir is a little jarrin...

Though I'm ill-versed in physics, not having studied it since high school (1966-1967), I found this book by Richard Feynman extremely en...

I've started to read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"  at a leisurely pace and will comment on it when I finish. Ther...

When I read The Selfish Gene several years ago, I was struck not particularly by Dawkins's presentation of the work of W.D. Hamilton and...

The lull continues, though my activities are slowly moving toward summer ones. Although it's only April, if you stargaze at four A.M. th...

There isn't much to report today, but there isn't much to do either, so I'm returning to my writing habit to occupy my mind. It...

Some time ago I had a brief exchange with John in which he said that he found memoirs preferable to fiction. Reading Le Clézio reminded me o...

In my quest for good writing I came across The African , by J.M.G. Le Clézio, a short memoir written mainly about his father. The family was...

As you get older, particularly when you have no pressing duties to perform, your mind may begin to wander and delve far back into your past....

I've finished reading this latest work from E.O. Wilson, and though as expected I agree with him on just about everything, I found the b...

I have thought a lot about the nature of work, perhaps because I never fully adapted to the workforce. It is difficult to say exactly why th...

On several posts I've made allusions to the likelihood that technology will eventually make earning a living extremely difficult, but I ...