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The famous biologist, provocateur, and best-selling publisher mounts a timely and passionate security of research and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including 20 pieces published in america for the first time. For decades Richard Dawkins has been the world's most brilliant scientific communicator, regularly illuminating the wonders of aspect and attacking faulty reasoning. Technology in the Heart includes 42 essays, polemics, and paeans - culled from personal papers, newspapers, lectures, and online salons - all written with Dawkins' characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world. Though it spans three ages, this book, dedicated to Christopher Hitchens, couldn't become more timely or more urgent. Elected representatives have opened the floodgates to prejudices which have, for half a century, been undesirable or at least undercover. In a separate introduction, Dawkins calls on us to insist that reason take centre stage and that gut feelings, even though they don't represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia, misogyny, or other blind prejudice, should stay out of the voting booth. And in the essays themselves, recently annotated by the author, he investigates lots of issues, including the importance of empirical research, and decries bad research, religion in institutions, and weather change deniers. Dawkins has equal ardor for "the sacred real truth of aspect" and makes here with typical virtuosity the glories and complexities of the natural world. Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time is the peculiar record of the gigantic tortoises and the ocean turtles - whose journeys between drinking water and land reveal a deeper history about evolution. At this moment, when so many highly located people still question the actual fact of advancement, Dawkins asks what Darwin would label of his own legacy - "[a] mixture of exhilaration and exasperation" - and celebrates research as possessing many of religion's virtues - "explanation, consolation, and uplift" - without its detriments of superstition and prejudice. In a world produced irrational and hostile to facts, Technology in the Heart is an essential collection by an essential author.
