Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience, Susan G. Davis The second and third chapters outline how the Sea World experience is tailored to the customer and to the flow of the park in order to maximize profits. I was struck by how, even as the park claims to produce knowledge and educate, the … More Spectacular Nature
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, Charles Wohlforth I was interested in how the natives perceived scientific methods as lazy, in a way. After it was pointed out, I cannot unsee it now. While the Iñupiaq spend most of their time living in and experiencing Alaska and the changes it … More The Whale and the Supercomputer
A Holistic Approach to Making Sense of the Modern World While science has been an important avenue through which humans have attempted to explore and understand their surroundings since the time of the Greeks, it was not until the late nineteenth-century that its methods, across the increasingly specialized and defined scientific disciplines, began to … More Mechanism and Holism in Modernity
Darwin Demystified: Two Constructivist Analyses of the “Revolutionary” Evolutionist Peter J. Bowler’s biography of Charles Darwin betrays its relatively unique approach in its physical appearance before the reader ever opens it. The book itself is small, an irregularity anyone familiar with the Darwin industry would find immediately anomalistic. The cover shows a picture of … More Darwin Demystified
Quillets and Quackery 