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In an exclusive interview, Professor Jerrold Seigel of New York University talks about his ambitious and highly original new book, ‘Modernity and Bourgeois Life’, which offers a panoramic view...
We sat down with historian Susan-Mary Grant to discuss her recently published book, A Concise History of the United States.
Having worked in the Cambridge Japan office for eight and a half years, I had the privilege to be transferred to New York last December to work in the US market for a couple of years. Read More ?
The Financial Times recently ranked the Darden School’s executive education (EE) faculty #1 in the world for the eighth straight year. Collectively, we are honored by such recognition and individually,...
In an exclusive interview, Dr Ryan Minor talks about the challenges he faced in writing his latest book, Choral Fantasies. Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray ‘the people’ merely...
Religion and science have long been seen as incompatible; it’s the view that Robert Asher grew up with during his deeply Presbyterian childhood in Western New York. But since then, through years of studying early mammals and exploring fossil records, he found that no other theory comes close to Darwin’s as an explanation for the world’s incredible biodiversity.
When The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus was released on Palm Sunday last year, it created what can only be described as a media storm. Read More ?
At the end of this calendar year, misinterpretations of Mesoamerican/Mayan calendars will prove correct and catastrophe will beset humans…Or another cycle will begin: world leaders will again gather – this time in the oasis of Doha – for the ritual dance called international climate negotiations. If the latter scenario plays out, delegates and leaders will most likely perform their parts while prospects continue to look grim for substantive policy action to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, whose authority goes extinct just days later.
Let’s conduct a little experiment. When I say “fantasy,” what immediately comes to mind? Do you think of fearsome dragons, fair maidens, ambitious quests, valiant (and sometimes not-so) kings, and all-knowing fairies? Or do you imagine a certain hobbit trying to destroy a certain ring? Perhaps a certain wizard with a certain lightning-shaped scar on his forehead?
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Cambridge author Judea Pearl the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award, a prestigious honor widely considered to be computing’s equivalent...
Is that Laurence Olivier or Captain Jack Sparrow? David Crystal’s audio archive explores how Shakespeare’s words originally sounded. Read More ?
Engineering is still largely perceived as a male-dominated field, but women have pioneered groundbreaking inventions and structures since the early nineteenth century. To conclude our Women in Science series in honor of Women’s History Month, test your knowledge of famous women engineers here.
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