There Will Be an Interlude...

Heading home to work on The Casebook of Doctor Sababa. If you want a little light reading while I’m gone, go to
www.lawrencewinkler.com
Merry merry and Happy happy.
See you in three months.

The Open Office and the Spirit of Capitalism

The office is the prime locus of utopian aspirations in American life.

Framing Nature

 Drone photography is a radical new aesthetic.

Is Literary Glory Worth Chasing?

Nope. But literary excellence is.

Small Farmers in Mexico Keep Corn’s Genetic Diversity Alive

Campesinos are driving the evolution of maize in North America.

Self-care Won’t Save Us

No, it won’t.

What Happened to Venezuela Isn’t So Simple

It’s not a proving ground for Capitalism vs. Socialism. It’s a story of corruption.

We Need to Destroy the Blurbing Industrial Complex

Or not.

Chinatown Koi Evacuation Begins as Otter Rampage Claims 10th Fatality

A total of 10 koi have now been killed and eaten by the otter as of Sunday morning. Team Otter!

The Present Phase of Stagnation in the Foundations of Physics Is Not Normal

This is not a problem that will go away by itself.

Karst: the Latest Casualty of Clear-Cut Logging

On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.

Believing Without Evidence is Always Morally Wrong.

If there was ever a time when critical thinking was a moral imperative, and credulity a calamitous sin, it is now.

Quantum Insight

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice.’

The Dawn of Interplanetary Geology

NASA’s newest Mars mission is poised to transform the most terrestrial of sciences.

Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?

No.

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

Quality of Life

Aging is not a problem to be solved. It is a meaning to be lived out.

How the Chile Pepper Took Over the World

Until 500 years ago, the spice as we know it was confined to Central and South America. How the heat wave happened.

The Future of Aging Just Might be in Maragaritaville

At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how an increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend its extra decades.

All of Life Is Creation

Jack Kerouac’s Art.

How Did Life Emerge?

A new book argues that life may be spread more widely through the universe than we think.

Subjectivity and Its Discontents

On Bullshit.

Frederick Banting's Painting of the Lab Where He Discovered Insulin Part of Auction Preview

Estimated value of some pieces close to $1M.

Rare Microbes Lead Scientists to Discover New Branch on the Tree of Life

Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi.

Rhiannon Adam’s Revealing Portrait of Pitcairn Island

Heading here in January.

The Hunt for Human Nature

We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence.

The World’s Largest Hot Sauce Collection Might Be in an Arizona Living Room

8,600 bottles and counting.

How the Tuberculosis Epidemic Influenced Modernist Architecture

Light, air, and hygiene were the best treatment for tuberculosis at the time.

Pretentious, Impenetrable, Hard Work ... Better?

Why we need difficult books.

The Concrete Jungle

Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

Wide and Starry Sky

How Robert Louis Stevenson came to live, die, and be buried in Samoa.

Not for Astronauts

The Search for the Great Canadian Novel

Don’t search so hard.

Paper Airplanes

All kinds.

Chords

Another Successful Mushroom Day

With Steve of the Jacuzzi.

Fond Memories of Borneo

65 Today

My Life Cleanse

 One month inside L.A.’s cult of betterness.

The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free

Like Libertalia, in Bandits of Madgascar.

Why the Long Face?

Sadness makes us seem nobler, more elegant, more adult. Which is pretty weird, when you think about it.

The New Canon

What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?

The Gift of Death

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

No Nobel Prize for Literature? Thank Goodness.

Give them a chance to read my work for next year.

Bandits of Madagascar Author Reading- October27, 2018

The Halibut Hook Revival

An ingenious Indigenous fishing technology with spiritual significance is making a comeback.

Suicides Surge in a Hopeless Venezuela

Very sad. I loved Merida.

Precision Medicine Moves from Promise to Reality

And in The Casebook of Doctor Sababa, back again.

A Brief History of Sci-Fi’s Love Affair With the Red Planet

Oh so close, and yet so far.

The Emperor’s Woke Clothes

Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?

It’s Official

The ‘Bandits of Madagascar’ Author Reading at Nanaimo North Library, Saturday October 27, 2018. I’ll bring my friends, you bring yours.

Amid Pollution and Political Indifference, Nigerians Struggle to Catch Their Breath

Nigeria’s southern region suffers off-the-charts air pollution. Leaders are doing little to help.

Why Forests Give You Awe

There is a vastness, a solemnity, a gloom, a sense of solitude and of human insignificance which for a time overwhelm you.

Far Right, Misogynist, Humourless?

Why Nietzsche is misunderstood.