The June issue of The Atlantic includes a deep profile of the accomplished but not-very-well-known comedian Albert Brooks . Here's a gl...

Today begins Blaugust 2024 , an annual blogging festival that is fun and challenging. Last year I made it halfway through August with a post...

Evolution is easier than we think, and one great way to see why is to look at what we know about protein evolution. Proteins have been evolv...

For five years through 2018, our humanist community, the Humanist Hub*, met every Sunday afternoon at our suite in Harvard Square for fellow...

A few days ago I wrote about scientific thinking as an antidote to intuition . Not just an alternative to it, but something like the opposit...

As I work on a book that will claim that evolution is easy, I have a parallel task of exploring the reasons we sense that it is hard or even...

A few years ago, I somehow realized that I wanted to read more stories. My work as a journal editor involved hours of intense scientific rea...

'Genome' is now a pretty standard word in our social vocabulary. We have to put up with overloaded metaphors like "blueprint...

This week in the Blaugust 2023 blogging festival , the broad theme is "Introduce yourself." Yesterday I alluded to my bardolatry a...

This blog's name captures my longstanding interest in human nature : humans are apes, and animals, and yet somehow able to create music...