Michele Pridmore-Brown is a scholar with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at UC Berkeley and the Science Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Los Angeles Review of Books Digital Editions – The Digital Revolution: Debating the Promise and Perils of the Internet and Algorithmic Lives in the Last Years of the Obama Administration
The Los Angeles Review of Books offers its new digital edition, focusing on the internet, automation, and algorithms over the last few years....
Wired for Madness? A History
Madness in civilization, or so-called "degeneracy," can be interpreted in a variety of ways depending on the time period and who's in charge of categories....
The Evolving Virgin: Sexual Treaties, Gaga Procreation and the “Facts of Life”
Ex ovo omnia [out of the egg, all things] — William Harvey, Experiments concerning the Generation of Animals i. The old Virgin ...
Evolution, Sex, and Finding Your Inner Grok: An Interview with Marlene Zuk
MARLENE ZUK IS AN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST at the University of Minnesota. Her last book was a pithily entertaining look at sex ...
The Girl with the Father Tattoo
And so it was that daughters, perhaps more relationally adept on average, became the more fertile conduit for paternal ambition....
Social Darwinism
The number is highly debatable, but it turns out that, Facebook aside, the average person has about 150 friends....
