January 21, 2011
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September 3, 2010
The Science of Self-Help
A vast apparatus of uplift and solicitude services Americans’ longings for success and happiness. Self-help, positive...
September 3, 2010
Disenchanting Determinism
Is human life less meaningful the more its mechanisms are known?
April 8, 2010
Scientists Fallen Among Poets
Algis Valiunas on what the Romantics learned from scientists, and vice versa
April 8, 2010
One Man’s Quantum Culture
Quantum theory is known largely for being unknown — known, in other words, for how it departs from the world of...
April 8, 2010
From Cursive to Cursor
First I used crayons and colored pencils to draw on loose sheets of paper, or in coloring books. Then I was given lined...
April 8, 2010
Bad Advice for Scientists
The widespread belief that conservatives are anti-science owes much to Chris Mooney, the author of the book The...
March 3, 2010
Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social...
January 11, 2010
Cheap Thrills
The love of the bargain — the good deal — the something, if not for nothing, for less than its value...
January 11, 2010
The Formation of Character
My favorite story about handwriting does not appear in Kitty Burns Florey’s winsome history. It comes from the...