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Panel Event: Stopping ‘Hate’ Is Really about Stopping Debate

Washington, DC: Thursday, March 18 (9:30 a.m.): Carol Swain, author of The New White Nationalism in America and editor of Debating Immigration, will be speaking on a great panel organized by the Center...

12 Mar 2010

McSweeney’s Open Letter to Cambridge University Press, Regarding Odor

Just stumbled across McSweeney’s Open Letter to Cambridge University Press, Regarding Odor. For the uninitiated, these are usually letters addressed “To People Or Entities Who Are Unlikely...

11 Mar 2010

Great Science Doesn’t Stand Still

“Great science doesn’t stand still. It picks up and carries ideas and findings way beyond the wildest hopes of its founders.” — Michael Ruse, one of our favorite Darwin defenders...

8 Mar 2010

Puttin’ the Objective in Objectivity

Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, wrote a (rather negative) book review of Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath...

8 Mar 2010

Back to Work – Baby News and Blues!

It was a momentous turning point in our life, the birth of our daughter Mahika. December 2nd 2009. It was a date to remember forever. And so, of course, it was a time for resolutions. Some were vague,...

4 Mar 2010

Beatles-Mania in Pennsylvania

In the half-century since their founding, the lives and lyrics of The Beatles have won the hearts of an international fandom spanning generations… and captured the interest of two Penn State professors....

3 Mar 2010

Hilary Earl on New Books in History

Marshall Poe’s latest podcast on New Books in History features historian Hilary Earl and The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History. In the first historical examination...

1 Mar 2010

Snow Day in New York City

Heavy snow warning in effect.  Today’s view from the office… Read More ?

26 Feb 2010

The New Demand for Print… on Demand

In 2009, about 10% of Cambridge’s sales were generated by books printed on demand (POD) – a dramatic increase from five years ago. Engraving of printer using the early Gutenberg letter press, 15th...

26 Feb 2010

Peer Review Pickle

Peer-reviewed science – the time-honored system of scholars vetting scholars – faces challenges in the face of scandals such as Climategate. spiked looks at the flaws in this esoteric system...

25 Feb 2010

Rainy Days in Higher Ed

Higher education is an industry like any other. There is no sheltered ivory tower rising above real world financial pressure: it requires funding and responds to cycles of supply and demand. That’s...

Burton A. Weisbrod, Evelyn D. Asch | 24 Feb 2010

Thanks for the good times!

Just a quick note of farewell as I move on to Pittsburgh, departing Cambridge after 3 lovely years. Thanks to Cambridge for a great environment, and to you, authors and readers, for your responsiveness...

22 Feb 2010