| Week | Date to read by | Reading |
| 1 | Wed, Jan 10 | Cargo Cult Science (1974 CalTech commencement speech by Richard Feynman) |
| Thurs, Jan 11 | Innumeracy (entire book); and Treat me? (from Slate's "Medical Examiner" column) |
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| 2 | Tues, Jan 16 | The Selfish Gene, chaps 1 & 2 |
| Wed, Jan 17 | The Selfish Gene, chaps 3 - 5 | |
| Thurs, Jan 18 | The Selfish Gene (chaps 6 - 9) | |
| 3 | during field trip | The Selfish Gene (chaps 10 - 13) |
| 4 | Tues, Jan 30 | The Beak of the Finch, part 1 |
| Thur, Feb 1 | The Beak of the Finch, part 2 | |
| 5 | Tues, Feb 6 | The Beak of the Finch, part 3 |
| Thur, Feb 8 | The Price of Climate Change (Freakonomics column, The New York Times, Nov 5, 2006) | |
| 6 | Thur, Feb 15 | Ancient Crash, Epic Wave (New York Times, Nov 14, 2006) |
| 7 | Tues, Feb 20 | Unhappy Meals (by Michael Pollan, New York Times, January 28, 2007) Survival of the Yummiest (response to Pollan, published in Slate.com, January 31, 2007) |
| Thur, Feb 22 | Alexander, R. D. 1990. How did Humans Evolve? Reflections on the Uniquely Unique Species. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Special Publication #1. | |
| 8 | Wed, Feb 28 | Why We Get Sick, chaps 1 - 6 |
| Thur, March 1 | Why We Get Sick, chaps 7 - 15 | |
| 9 | Thurs, Mar 8 | "Deep Economy" by Bill McKibben (from the March/April 2007 issue of Mother Jones |
