Bob Crawford, the bassist for The Avett Brothers, shares with “CBS Saturday Morning” why he believes John Quincy Adams is an underrated American hero amid the release of his new book “America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick.” Source: Read Full Article
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‘Richard Dawkins brilliantly made us think from the gene’s-eye view’: rereading The Selfish Gene In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish Gene was an irresistible scientific…
The Elusive Body, by Alexandra Sifferlin (Viking). Each year, around twelve million people in the U.S. experience a medical diagnostic error; some three million live with diseases that remain undiagnosed even after exhaustive medical investigation. Sifferlin’s book examines the roots of this situation, and explores avenues for addressing it. Though some methods—such as improving physician…
Even the biggest fans of Dune know that Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi epic quickly veers into the fantastical. Giant subterranean sandworms measuring 1,500 feet long; a narcotic that fuels interstellar travel and bends a user’s perception of space-time; a mystical cabal of eugenicist witches—the list goes on. But there is at least one story within…
When the initial wave of Heated Rivalry obsession first took over, many fans of the show suddenly found themselves inundated with videos about real-life hockey players between recreations of Shane’s come-to-my-cottage scene and gut-wrenching Hallonov edits. “I think Heated Rivalry confused my social media algorithm,” says Allie Newsom, a 35-year-old health policy researcher. “I was…
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