Redefining “Information”
A review of James Gleick's latest bestseller, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.
Book Reviews
A Journey Through the Mind
What separates apes from humans? What causes some people to doubt their own existence? Why can some associate colors with numbers while others associate them with musical notes? Dr. Vilyanur S. Ramachandran seeks to probe the inner workings of the human brain in his new book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human.
A Marxist utopia in your backyard?
A review of Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler's new book, "The Superorganism," that delves into the expose provided in the book of complex superorganism societies.
Making the case for evolution
People either accept evolution as a fact or they don’t believe in it—rarely do you meet a person without an opinion. When I posed this question to my roommate I was attempting to be diplomatic, but I regretted it almost immediately afterwards. Was the question too prying?
Check it off
In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande, the author of Better and Complications and a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, spends 193 pages talking about an idea that seems ridiculously simple: the checklist.