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Is Eating People Wrong in Globe and Mail

Last Friday The Globe and Mail included Allan Hutchinson’s Is Eating People Wrong in their weekly round-up of books worth a look, calling it “fascinating, learned and anecdotally rich.”...

24 Jan 2011

What the Tea Party Could Learn from Roe v. Wade

Scott H. Ainsworth and Thad E. Hall discuss the way abortion policy works today and how Democrats and Republicans can treat it going forward.

Scott H. Ainsworth, Thad E. Hall | 21 Jan 2011

Four Books on FiveBooks

Cambridge titles abound in recent FiveBooks interviews over on The Browser! Let’s see if you can match the books Professor James Dunkerly and statistician Andrew Gelman picked as the best in Latin...

19 Jan 2011

Introducing Radicals in Their Own Time

Be on the lookout for more from Michael on This Side of the Pond in the coming weeks! Michael A. Lawrence is the author of Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal...

14 Jan 2011

Critics Fascinated by Toby E. Huff Titles

Not one, but two Toby E. Huff titles have been singled out as “fascinating” books in recent news items. Huff’s  The Rise of Early Modern Science (2003) recieved the distinction in an...

10 Jan 2011

Stop the tax deduction for major college sports programs

For big-time college sports, late December is more than the season of holiday basketball tournaments and the start of myriad football bowl games. It’s also the time for making tax-deductible gifts...

Charles Clotfelter | 10 Jan 2011

Wordsworth and Experiential Intimacy

Most readers are familiar with William Wordsworth, easily recognizable as a Romantic ‘nature’ poet who wrote about daffodils and long walks in the Lake District, as well as a few ballads about the...

Emma Mason | 4 Jan 2011

Happy 100th, Principia Mathematica!

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...

30 Dec 2010

NYT’s The Stone: On Forgiveness

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...

Charles Griswold | 28 Dec 2010

First Lunar Eclipse in 2.5 years! Part II

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...

David H. Levy | 20 Dec 2010

First Lunar Eclipse in 2.5 years!

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...

David H. Levy | 20 Dec 2010

Matt Ridley on ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ for FiveBooks

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...

17 Dec 2010