D. Graham Burnett
D. Graham Burnett is an editor at Cabinet Magazine and a historian of science at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century.
All Writing
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Book of Nature
Funhouse Goddess
D. Graham BurnettIt has never been easy to decipher what nature is trying to tell us, but that hasn’t stopped us from filling in the... More
Essay
Ways of Learning
Catch and Release
D. Graham BurnettA history of pedagogical practices in the classroom and in the field. More
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Travel
A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing
D. Graham BurnettThe first adventurers in the Age of Discovery didn’t just make progress into uncharted waters, they invented the very... More
Roundtable
Heraclitus in Guatemala
D. Graham Burnett recounts an unlikely conversation he had with his barber about the philosophy of history. More