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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

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

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 ?

10 Dec 2010

Talking About Life in Mono Lake

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...

Chris Impey | 9 Dec 2010

Cosmologist Paul Davies Discovers New Forms of Life, Contemplates the Nature of Reality

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,...

6 Dec 2010