Much public discourse, if you can call it that, revolves around keeping economic expansion going, assuming that no alternative exists. Economists refer to the opposite of expansion as contraction, presuming that it’s […]
Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity, by Denis Noble Book Review by Doc Hall How we explain to ourselves the answers to two big questions underpins the myriad […]
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz Kathryn Schulz is a professional journalist and writer covering a broad range of topics. This book was her foray […]
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, by Donald Hoffman Book Review by Doc Hall The philosophical and scientific quest to define consciousness is one […]
Should Humans Adopt a Mushroom Strategy? The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna L. Tsing In some ways, mushrooms […]
Call of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy Review by Don Stewart Massy is an Australian farmer who earned a mid-life PhD in Human […]
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, by Eric Topol Eric Topol hit the news big time in 2004 as the chief whistleblower questioning the validity of research […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff Shoshana Zuboff is Professor Emerita from Harvard Business School. Her research […]
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra Fritjof Capra is well known for scientifically proposing that the universe, including humans, is a complex web of relationships, and for examining the concept […]
Commercial Thinking vs. Scientific Thinking Unsavory Truth, by Marion Nestle Except for political propaganda, hardly any field is more laden with misleading BS than nutrition. It comes from purveyors of food […]
Background for Environmental Symbiosis A Rough Ride to the Future, by James Lovelock This book is a fun read by a scientific maverick, written at age 95. He’s now 99, […]
Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk: A Research Strategy, by the National Academies of Sciences This report is a short book in length, but a slow read if […]
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