Month: September 2012
Huffington Post Author Invents Claims about Explore Evolution and Pop-Paleontology
Some critics find it easier to attack a book by inventing claims about what it says than by reading the book and responding to what’s actually in it.
E. O. Wilson Stumbles on His Conscience
In his new book, E. O. Wilson can’t avoid moralizing. But if everything in life is produced by evolution, what’s there to care about?
How James Clerk Maxwell Rescued the Humanities in Verse
Few may realize that James Clerk Maxwell, the 19th-century physicist on par with Newton and Einstein who gave us electromagnetic theory, was a poet. One of his best takes materialists to task in playful yet incisive wit.