Biologist Richard Dawkins presents the basics to assist those "prepared to argue the case."
If I believed in God, I would thank him for blessing us with Richard Dawkins. The British biologist has become renowned lately for denouncing religion, most recently in his 2006 best seller The God Delusion. But I prefer his explanations and celebrations of "eating, growing, rotting, swimming, walking, flying, burrowing, stalking, chasing, fleeing, outpacing, outwitting" creatures, as he describes them in The Greatest Show on Earth.
In Manhattan in the late 1950s, it was great to be young and a jazz fan. The drinking age in New York state was 18, so a college student with a draft card and the price of a couple of beers could sit at the bar of a club and catch a full evening of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, or other greats.
- The "No Impact Man" recalibrates his life for the good of the planet.Enough about the toilet paper already. If people would just quit obsessing about it, Colin Beavan could get on with more important aspects of his year-long experiment in living with no - or, as it turned out, significantly less - impact on the planet.
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Dark, often crushingly grim, Box 21 introduces us to a world of characters who hate what they do for a living. I count at least two police detectives, one junkie, one doctor, a welter of crooks, and at least one social servant who see the veneer peel off their careers, revealing the shabby, agonized self-deception beneath.
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