Books
David Dobbs: Reef Madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
Oliver Sacks calls it "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today.”David Dobbs and Richard Ober: The Northern Forest
What's wrong with the land-use debate in the Great North Woods (and elsewhere).Brian Greene, editor: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)
Contains my NY Times Magazine story on the decline of the autopsyGina Kolata, Editor: The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Best American Science Writing)
Contains my NY Times Magazine story on an experimental brain surgery for depression.David Dobbs: The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery
An epistemological argument disguised as a fish fight.
Work
blogroll
- Boing Boing
- Brain Waves (Zack Lynch)
- Carl Zimmer's The Loom
- collision detection: a blog of clive thompson
- Effect Measure
- Furious Seasons
- Knight Science Journalism Tracker
- Mind Hacks
- Neuroanthropology
- Neurophilosophy
- RealClimate
- Savage Minds
- ScienceBlogs
- Small Gray Matters
- Somatosphere
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- The Frontal Cortex
- The Observatory
- The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross on music)
- The Trouble With Spikol
Contact
- Email Address:
- Website: http://daviddobbs.net
Biography
David Dobbs writes for the New York Times Magazine, Play, Scientific American Mind, Slate, Audubon, and other publications. His magazine stories have been featured in the leading annual "Best of Science" anthologies (see Books).
His latest book is Reef Madness (Pantheon, 2005). Oliver Sacks calls Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today.”
Dobbs is also author of the The Great Gulf, The Northern Forest (with Richard Ober). More information and links are at his website, daviddobbs.net.