BOOK REVIEWThe Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religiousby Joseph Blankholm 2022 About the AuthorJoseph Blankholm is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. About the BookA radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why being secular can seem so strangely religious For much of America’s rapidly … Continue reading The Secular Paradox
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah
BOOK REVIEWThe Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishna with Introduction and Notesby Shaye J.D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, Hayim Lapin, Editors About the EditorsShaye Cohen is Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University. He previously taught at Brown University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is widely recognized … Continue reading The Oxford Annotated Mishnah
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The Matter of Everything
BOOK REVIEWThe Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the Worldby Suzie Sheehy 2023 About the AuthorDR. SUZIE SHEEHY is a physicist, science communicator and academic who divides her time between research groups at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne. She is currently focused on developing new particle accelerators for … Continue reading The Matter of Everything
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Build
BOOK REVIEWBuild: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Makingby Tony Fadell 2022 About the AuthorTony Fadell started his 30 year Silicon Valley career at General Magic, the most influential startup nobody has ever heard of. Then he went on to make the iPod and iPhone, start Nest and create the Nest Learning Thermostat. Throughout … Continue reading Build
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Becoming Human
BOOK REVIEWBecoming Human: A Theory of Ontogenyby Michael Tomasello 2019 About the AuthorMichael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. From 1998 to 2018 he was Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and in 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of … Continue reading Becoming Human
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On the Origin of Evolution
BOOK REVIEWOn the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNAby John Gribbin 2020 About the AuthorJohn R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the … Continue reading On the Origin of Evolution
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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants
BOOK REVIEW - The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behaviorby Stefano Mancuso 2018 About the AuthorStefano Mancuso is an Italian botanist, professor of the Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry department at his alma mater, the University of Florence. He is the director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, … Continue reading The Revolutionary Genius of Plants
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