Asimov essays

I've been re-readig some of the collections of Asimov's essays and
though some of them are obviously rather dated now I have thoroughly
enjoyed the content and style of most of them. Is there any comparable
author these days that is of a similar style and produces similar
articles?

Cheers
Chris

In article <1129562198.925734.76500.RemoveThis@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Chris <Chris.Allott.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

: I've been re-readig some of the collections of Asimov's essays and
: though some of them are obviously rather dated now I have thoroughly
: enjoyed the content and style of most of them. Is there any comparable
: author these days that is of a similar style and produces similar
: articles?

I don't know about "these days," but Carl Sagan produced similar articles
(e.g. the ones in his book _Broca's Brain_). Stephen Jay Gould wrote
similar articles on various aspects of natural history and evolution,
although IMHO, his essays tended to be more about how smart Stephen Jay
Gould was than about their nominal subjects. If you like Asimov's
essays, you might also like Martin Gardner's old "Mathematical Games"
columns and his essays about pseudo-science.

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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and
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