Selected Essays

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The Great Matrix of Big History
Understanding Natural Hierarchies through Big History Buy the Book: Applied Big History Our European ancestors once understood the universe...
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The Economics of Cell Biology: A Little Big History
Buy the book! Getting Down to Business Economic metaphors help to better understand cell biology. In return cell biology...
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Applied Big History: A Guide for Investors
Based on a talk given at the Research Retreat of Canyon Partners September 10, 2014, Beverly Hills, CA “If...
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Recovery Planning for Climate Catastrophes
Join with me in a thought experiment. Imagine a major planetary cataclysm. It could be a global nuclear war,...
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Engaging the New Metanarrative
Science is progressive, and it tends toward consensus of necessity. Science discovers, illuminates, and crafts facts, and we rely...
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The Neurosciences of Bar Mitzvah
Attending a recent Bar Mitzvah ceremony, I was impressed, once again, by the wisdom of this ancient tribal initiation...
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Ha! Philosophy of Science at the Comedy Club
Back in 1989, I fell into a doctoral program when I discovered a passion and talent for teaching. Since...
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Millennialism at the Singularity
Reflections on the Metaphors, Meanings, and Limits of Exponential Logic Imagine billions of nanobots, tiny computerized machines smaller than...
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Post-Darwinism: The New, New Synthesis
A review of Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, by Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer...
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Astrobiology and the Human Prospect
In the Heavens as It is on Earth: Astrobiology and the Human Prospect The collision occurred on February 10,...
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Leeches on the Road to Enlightenment
No one warned me about the leeches. I arrived at Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre early on a Saturday morning...
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Eating Well Together
Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto It was a rainy fall day in Pennsylvania farm country. I was assisting the...
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Entangled Narratives
The Hermeneutics of the Good Life in a World of Competing Metanarratives “Our first business will be to...
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Review of Beinhocker The Origin of Wealth
In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biology A review of Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity,...
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Sleepless in Tehran
2:00 AM. I woke up suddenly from a nightmare.1 It takes a few days to get over the jetlag. It...
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Ten Reasons
Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion Published on Metanexus, December 2003 1) Cultural Ambivalence When we...
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The Simplified Keyboard: QWERTY vs Dvorak
The computer in front of you is a marvel of technological ingenuity. The keyboard at your finger tips, however,...
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Conflicting Ideologies and Common Security
N.B. – I wrote this essay in October 1987, two years before the fall of Berlin Wall and the...
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