Summary: A First Course in Magnetohydrodynamics offers a much-needed resource for undergraduate physics education. Despite the fact that magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) can be used to describe more than...
We are medical doctors, psychiatrists, working in a world of infinite need, finite resources, and – increasingly – ‘evidence-based medicine’. We are trained to ask questions such as: What is the...
Sometimes plans work best when they don’t really bear the hallmarks of a plan. Less design and more muddling through can achieve unforeseen good. This might be said for a well-known, but less well-understood,...
Exiting from international organizations (IOs) seems to be the strategy du jour in international relations. This is underscored by recent high-profile events: the implementation of Brexit in 2020, Russia’s...
Why do people so often approach nature with the same kinds of rapt aesthetic and spiritual attention that they bring to works of art? Why do they seek in nature both their most unique (or “true”)...
In 2016, the Harriet Tubman Collective—a group of Black disabled activists and community organizers—released a statement titled “Disability Solidarity: Completing the Vision for Black Lives.”...
During the nineteenth century Western art music advanced towards a peak of sonorous magnificence, perhaps reached in 1848 at Paris when Hector Berlioz conducted an ensemble of 1,022 performers. The guitar,...
The mythical siren song of Naples, which drew travelers to the shores, manifested itself centuries later in the reality of the Grand Tour. Generations came, lured by the urban expanse and broad culture...
What modes of scientific knowledge can images of architecture embody? An etching that Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder released in the second, 1594 instalment of his serially published Architectura...
The animation running below shows a new kind of algorithm solving a nonogram puzzle. The task is to arrange purple squares in a grid according to some constraints listed on the sides. For example,...
When we think about lyric poetry and song traditions in the Roman Empire, the association is hardly new. Horace’s refined lyric experiments are well known, and Nero’s dramatic (and infamous) performance...
For over two millennia, readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey have imagined a single, blind poet called Homer singing the deeds of the great heroes of the Trojan War. Captivating as this image may be,...