Doubt the Experts

Politics isn't exactly one of my favorite topics, but the current situation in the U.S. seems extraordinary, so I'll continue to com...

As I've said, I have a hard time finding things that I enjoy reading, mainly in areas other than nonfiction that is written specifically...

The bulk of the book is devoted to describing experiments that have studied evolutionary changes in specific species over short periods of t...

I'm moving along in this medium-length book by the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos. Losos surveys current research trends in the f...

The visitors have departed, my bout of shingles has almost healed and I am just about back to normal. However, it is still hot in Vermont, a...

I have officially entered what might be called the summer doldrums. It started with a heatwave that left me enervated, not wanting either to...

I found this book, by Yvonne Daley, informative regarding this period in Vermont. There isn't much analysis, and it consists mainly of v...

As usual, I have been scrounging around for something to read. I started Calypso , by David Sedaris, but don't think I'll finish it....

Later chapters discuss the state of affairs of ancient genomic studies in regions other than Europe. The Indus Valley received migrations of...

This book, by David Reich, summarizes research in the new field of the genomics of ancient human DNA. I'm about halfway through, and at ...

I seem to have been preoccupied with mundane activities, not leaving me with much of interest to say. The carpenter ants are out and require...

I've finally finished this biography and will sum up the remainder. Morris became extremely political from the 1880's to about 1890....

I apologize to those of you who have little or no interest in William Morris and can only say that I should be finished in my commentary wit...

I have better reading conditions at the moment and hope to advance rapidly through the remainder of the book, though I'm only halfway th...

The book I'm reading is long, and my reading has been curtailed further by another round of renovation in the house, which makes it too ...

Spring activities have been a further distraction from my reading, but I am still gradually making my way through the book. Its detail surpa...

Apparently, Fiona MacCarthy has a deep love for her subject, and it is not one that I share. However, I still find the life and times of Mor...

I seem to have got out of the habit of writing on this blog. That has partly to do with the arrival of early spring, when I usually have som...

I'm reading this long biography by Fiona MacCarthy for reasons somewhat different from my usual ones. William Morris was not a major thi...

The book on the whole provides a scattershot view of the future of AI. Tegmark seems to include snippets of just about everything he knows o...