Summer reading from Nature

The latest issue of Nature has a section on recommended summer reading/viewing; fourteen of us were asked to choose one book or DVD falling under the rubric of “relaxed, inspired holiday reading and viewing.”  My choice was, as I noted earlier, the novel Life of Pi, for which I give a very short precis.  Other [...]

New York Times readers write in on Collins

Today’s New York Times contains a spate of letters about Sam Harris’s op-ed criticizing Francis Collins’s appointment as NIH director.  As expected, most of the letters are critical of Harris, including the first one by Kenneth Miller at Brown University.  Miller says this:
Dr. Collins’s sin, despite credentials Mr. Harris calls “impeccable,” is that he is [...]