online resources and web sites

CLASS READINGS

Emerson essays  ("Fate," "Power," "Considerations")
    Early Emerson

David Zellnik, Serendib
    Wolfgang Dittus
    Emily DeCola
    Sloan Foundation

Kitzmiller v. Dover PA School district

E-Reserve (Barrett, Beer, Slingerland, Gottschall)  Userid: reserve  Password: Ei8erg

Gottschall, Boyd, Flesch PowerPoint

OTHER POSSIBLY USEFUL LINKS

Nicholas Wade, "Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force" New York Times, 2 March 2010

Joseph Carroll's recent work

Daniel Zalewski, "The Background Hum: Ian McEwan's Art of Unease" The New Yorker, 23 February 2009

Dan Green, "Breaking the Code: Against Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate"

"Ghosts in the House: How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of black writers" by Hilton Als.  New Yorker, 27 October 2003

George Saunders, "Victory Lap" The New Yorker, 5 October 2009

Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet--To Science"

Subscribe to American Scientist e-Newsletters

2009 Year of Science

UI College of Science Blog

Adam Gopnik, "Rewriting Nature," (New Yorker, October 23, 2006)

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
On the Origin of Species (annotated)
Michael Le Page, "24 Myths About Evolution" New Scientist, 16 April 2008
     "The Darwin Rhetoric Exploration" (class exercise 9/3/2009)

Stephen Pinker, "The Moral Instinct" (New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2008)

Barbara Kingsolver, "High Tide in Tucson"

Natalie Angier, "In Mammals, A Complex Journey to the Middle Ear" (New York Times, October 13, 2009)

Andrew Revkin, "Human Shadows on the Seas" (New York Times, February 26, 2008)

Benjamin S. Halpern, et al., "A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems" (Science, February 15, 2008)

http://transformationteam.net/video/perceptual_experiment_tc