Polymath at Large

 kw: book nonreview, philosophical musings I was sad to find that I could not in good conscience finish reading two books in a row. I wrote ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, mathematics, education, polemics When education becomes indoctrination, genuine learning vanishes. I had high...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, exobiology, astrobiology, seti, exoplanets, origins of life The title of a recent book by Nathalie A. Cabrol ...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, short stories, collections I use the term "SF" in the title rath...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, botany, trees, ancient trees Let me start with an old, old tree: Methuselah, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning I looked in the stats, and what did I see? Canadian spiders, comin' after me! There was a big bump...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, insects, entomology, surveys Books about insects usually focus either on their beauty and diversity, or on pr...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, quests, trash, garbage, environmentalism, recycling, plastics In 2017 and 2019 there were controversial propo...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, ecology, fisheries, eels, poaching When I was a child we visited tide pools in southern California, where my ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, geoscience, ice science, ice drilling, ice coring, greenland, ice caps, climate change This is the rig That d...

 kw: ai experiments, artificial intelligence, generated art, poems, illustrations, photo essays A little more than two years ago I used Dall...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, space fiction, moon, mars, mysteries The Oxygen Farmer by Colin Holmes is an upgrade from the Space Ope...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, botany, research, plant consciousness, communication, signaling, plant movement, plant intelligence ...