Cultured Neuron

Hand Transplant Transparency Nightmares   This February WIRED published my investigative story “The...

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Illustration © Eleanor Shakespeare, used by permission, all rights protected. Today I published a...

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“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most...

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The privacy implications of using digital habits to track mental health.At Slate today I examine the...

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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”Charles Darwin,...

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Big ol ass millipede pedding down the Carriage Road at the old Marsh place like it owned it. I didn’t argue. #vermont #outsideeveryday #autumn #twitter (at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National H...

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A good birding hour to start the day, guided by the unstumpable Chip Darmstadt of North Branch Nature Center. Migrants coming through with the cool front. Hits included: blue-headed vireo Red-...

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Hubbard Park’s new music stage seems to have special powers in fog. This is as close as I’d get. #morningwalk #morningfog #vermont #summer #twitter (at Hubbard Park)

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Happens every year, folks: Some favorites from the Stowe Auto Show. Mostly Jags. #instagram (at Stowe, Vermont)

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#latergram My stepmom’s flower and a of her dad’s football team almost a century ago. He was one of the fastest sprinter in the US and just missed making the 1936 Olympic team with Jesse Owen...

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My stepson’s house: a blossom, and in the background, a photo of her father’s high school football team in early 1930s. Her father was the fourth fastest sprinter in the US in 1936 - which me...

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Travel light - or not. Concrete suitcase and book, Kathy Hall’s house, Houston. #OMDEm5 #latergram #twitter

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Illustration Kouzuo Sakai, courtesy Spectrum Magazine My latest story, about how autism...

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On John McCain’s False Heroism My latest at Slate went up a couple days ago, after John McCain performed a weeklong drama in which he first revived the Kill Obamacare movement and then, tel...

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North Branch Nature Center even more beautiful than usual today. #vermont #birds #landscape #morninglight #morningwalk #twitter (at North Branch Nature Center)

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The milkweed is ready for its close-up. #July #summer #vermont #morningwalk #twitter (at North Branch Nature Center)

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Small shroom brightening the forest path this #morningwalk #vermont #instagram #twitter

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What My Fighter-Jock Uncle Might Have Thought of John McCain’s MelodramaMy uncle, Major Thomas David...

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I write on science, nature, and culture for the New York Times, National Geographic, Slate, Aeon, and other publications; I’ve also written three books and am at work on a fourth. More on all that is at daviddobbs.net. For blog posts tied closely tied to those interests, see my…

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Light waves.

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