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NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to math writer Julie Rehmeyer about Principia Mathematica, a landmark work in mathematical logic written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published by...
We are in a season traditionally devoted to good will among people and to the renewal of hope in the face of hard times. As we seek to realize these lofty ideals, one of our greatest challenges is overcoming...
As yesterday afternoon wore on, the Tucson area was enveloped in a strange cloud pattern called the Pineapple express—a very long, thin band of clouds stretching all the way from Hawaii. Over Los Angeles...
If the sky is clear early Tuesday morning December 21st beginning just before midnight (and the forecast expects it to be at least partially so) there will be a beautiful total eclipse of the Moon, the...
FiveBooks asked science writer Matt Ridley for a reading list on Technology, Optimism and How It’s All Going To Be Fine. Read what he had to say to editor Anna Blundy about top 5 pick The Skeptical...
We’re proud to announce that John Miller’s APOLLO, AUGUSTUS AND THE POETS has won this year’s Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association Read More ?
The last few weeks have seen a lot of discussion around the question: how strange can life be? Researchers studying life in Mono Lake in California found that microbes had no trouble surviving in the toxic...
As director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Paul Davies has had a busy few weeks. First, he announced a key discovery that would impact the search for intelligent life. Then,...
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 author Paul Landau shares his broad vision of South African history and politics in an Africa Past & Present podcast. Listen here. Read More ?
Homosexuality is at the centre of some major debates in society right now. Not that this is something really new, homosexuals have been regarded as a “thorn in the flank” of Western culture since at...
When I was 13 years old, I threw a message in a Listerine bottle from an ocean liner in the middle of the Atlantic. More than a year later, I got a letter from Iceland containing my original note, a brief...
July 13, 2010 click on images throughout for larger versions Flowers for the victims After the estimated 50,000 mourners and observers left Potočari for their destinations all over Bosnia and abroad,...
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