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Balogh Interviewed on With Good Reason

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 ?

20 Jan 2010

Lomborg: Smarter Response to Global Warming

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...

Bjørn Lomborg | 20 Jan 2010

Where’s the Poe Toaster?

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 ?

19 Jan 2010

Risky Bubbles

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...

Harold Vogel | 19 Jan 2010

Seismologist on Haitian Quakes

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...

14 Jan 2010

Science for Science Teachers

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” —...

Michael Ruse | 14 Jan 2010

Are Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer Perched on a Glass Cliff?

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...

Kristin J. Anderson | 11 Jan 2010

The Chronicle Welcomes Michael Ruse

Science and Religion expert Michael Ruse is one of our favorite Cambridge authors. He’s nuanced, compelling, and unwilling to settle for simple, doctrinal arguments on either side of the creationism...

Michael Ruse | 7 Jan 2010

College Football is Big Business

Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, authors of Mission and Money Burton Weisbrod and Evelyn D. Asch reveal the incentives that steer college coaches in directions that may be at odds with the institutional...

Burton A. Weisbrod, Evelyn D. Asch | 5 Jan 2010

Beckett’s Meditations on Music

The Letters of Samuel Beckett contain a fair amount of Beckett’s reflections on musical performances, and critic Alex Ross notes several of them on his New Yorker blog: In this week’s issue of...

4 Jan 2010

Robert P. George: A Rising Star on the Right

In Sunday’s New York Times, David D. Kirkpatrick wrote a fascinating profile on Cambridge author Robert P. George, tracing his steady rise to leadership as the public face of the conservative Christian...

21 Dec 2009

Happy Holidays!

The holidays approach. There won’t be any updates until the new year. In the meantime, happy holidays, everyone! Read More ?

18 Dec 2009