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I am a reader, a photographer, an explorer, and an idiot. Because of these qualities, I like to think I’m silly enough to write a book.

I’ve worked in Baghdad while a war was waging, in Bahrain while riots were ensuing, and in Saudi Arabia where women don’t exist. I lived in Italy where a simple task takes five days, and in Australia, where men wearing pink shirts is the new norm. While exploring twenty-five countries on five continents, and speaking bad Italian, horrible Spanish and passable Arabic, I’ve befriended Americans, Italians, Brazilians, Australians, Arabs, Chileans and New Zealanders all while faithfully and stupidly remaining the odd one out.

Through four years of craziness, staring death in the face on four occasions, meeting h...more


Following on from my last two guest posts—The Insanity of Biotech by biochemist Paul Little, and Why I’m Through with Organic Farming by farmer Mike Bendzela—is this Q&A with evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne who wrote the marvelous book, Why Evolution is True, and writes (extremely frequently) on his blog of the same name.


Evolution is one of those touchy subjects in the public sphere n...

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Published on May 21, 2013 02:18
Average rating: 4.15 · 13 ratings · 7 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Random Rationality: A Ratio...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
Random Rationality: Expande...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013

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