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When restoration of a Michelangelo painting in St. Peter’s at the Vatican revealed the later addition of some elements, the resulting dispute pit art against theology and history. Michelangelo expert...
via Brainstorm Health-care reform is set to become my King Charles’s Head. I am going to find it difficult to write anything without it coming up in the middle. Fifty-seven million people in the...
Where does the buck stop? The NYT TierneyLab looks at science and money, along with all of the attendant “conflicts of interest” between sound science and the money tied up in it. Read here...
Manuela Constantino of the quarterly Canadian Literature picked the perfect interview subjects for their latest issue: editors and contributors from The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, including...
We think of René Descartes as a French philosopher given that he was born in La Haye, France. Descartes, however, felt most at home among the Dutch. In 1618 he joined the army of the Dutch commander,...
Historian Brian Balogh was recently interviewed on With Good Reason, discussing the (surprisingly) active 19th century government that laid the foundation for America’s rise. Listen >> Read More ?
Writing in the Washington Post, Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg on the lack of meaningful action on climate change: Even though no one should have been surprised by the outcome of last month’s...
Every year, on Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, mysterious visitor leaves cognac and roses on his grave. This year it didn’t happen, for the first time in 60 years. The story >> Read More ?
In a recent interview on Bloomberg Television, Harold Vogel, author of the just-published Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes talks about today’s stock prices in context of his ground-breaking model...
In a Scientific American article today, author and seismologist Robert Yeats expressed sadness, but little surprise, over the devastation in Haiti. He is currently writing a book for us: Active Faults...
via Brainstorm In 1981, the State of Arkansas passed into law a bill that demanded that if evolution was taught in state-supported schools, then something called “Creation Science” —...
Diane Sawyer recently took over the anchor chair of ABC World News from Charles Gibson, transforming the evening news landscape with two of the three major network prime-time newscasts now anchored by...
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