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  • 16 Oct 2009

    What Doctors are Missing

    In his New York Review of Books article on the changes in medical culture, Jerome Groopman cites Stanley Reiser’s Technological Medicine.

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  • 14 Oct 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #3

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: David.

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  • 13 Oct 2009

    Glenn Greenwald interviews Jonathan Weiler

    Jonathan Weiler, co-author of "Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics" appeared in a podcast interview with Salon's Glenn Greenwald.

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  • 8 Oct 2009

    Hacked Robots!

    Questions right out of Future Imperfect are considered over at Network World with the question: “How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?”

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  • 7 Oct 2009

    Globalization and Human Rights

    When globalization gets messy, we have a number of problems. It gets blamed for human rights violations, even while it has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. It forces us to engage governments that we might rather not deal with, and poses a dilemma of how best to do so. In his new […]

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  • 7 Oct 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #2

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week, he examines the Pieta of St. Peter's Basilica.

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  • 5 Oct 2009

    Russell in graphic novel

    A new graphic novel (reviewed in the Guardian) details the struggles of Bertrand Russell in striving toward mathematical and logical truth. Funny bit: In [Principia Mathematica], the authors famously take 362 pages to prove 1 + 1 = 2, using a method so arcane that Cambridge University Press could not find anyone to evaluate the […]

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  • 2 Oct 2009

    Climate Change threatens national parks

    A new report, reported in USA Today outlines major hazards to our national parks, with climate change presenting the greatest. The report’s data comes from Global Impacts in the United States, which we just published.

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