Matt Ridley
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit My review of Unfit for Purpose: When human evolution collides with the modern world by Adam Hart, for The Critic: Our ancestors have spent a few hundred years in cities at most. Before that, they spent a million […]
Book Review: A Dominant Character by Samanth Subramanian — the stupidity of a brilliant mind
Matt Ridley
JBS Haldane was a polymath — but his communist faith blinded him to the truth about the Soviet Union My article for The Times: When he knew he was dying, the scientist JBS Haldane wrote that he hadn’t walked on the seafloor from England to France, but he had been wounded in war, known the […]
The First Review of How Innovation Works and Other News
Matt Ridley
“An enthusiastic history of human technical innovation” From the Kirkus review of How Innovation Works: Throughout the book, the author delivers fascinating histories of technology that we take for granted. Many hands contributed to the developments of the steam engine, automobile, and computer. Ridley makes a convincing case that obsessive trial and error works better […]
