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Iran’s Hidden Path to the Bomb

Writing for NYRBlog, nuclear weapons expert Jeremy Bernstein explains Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear material — something they’re already doing at an alarming rate. Bernstein’s...

Jeremy Bernstein | 2 Dec 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #10

In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace fills us in on great works of the master. Wallace is author of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times, available now! To subscribe,...

William E. Wallace | 2 Dec 2009

Shades of 1938: Colleges quiet a critic of Islam

In last Friday’s Daily News, Stephen Norwood attacks Princeton and Columbia universities for their cancellations of speeches by Nonie Darwish – feminist and critic of radical Islam. Norwood...

Stephen H. Norwood | 1 Dec 2009

Happy 150th Bday, Origin!

Happy birthday, Origin! 150 years ago today, Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. We’ve released an anniversary edition, with an introduction by...

24 Nov 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #9

In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace is author of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times. This week, I’m posting...

William E. Wallace | 24 Nov 2009

Civil War Book Review: John Brown’s War Against Slavery

The excellent Civil War Book Review of LSU recently posted Grady Atwater’s review of Robert McGlone’s John Brown’s War Against Slavery. With the 150th anniversary of Harper’s Ferry...

23 Nov 2009

Beautiful NASA video of weather systems

Via Gizmodo: a gorgeous NASA composite of weather systems on earth, developed at Goddard with the Earth System Modeling Framework. Read More ?

23 Nov 2009

FireDogLake Book Salon hosts Hetherington & Weiler

Sunday’s Book Salon discussion over at FireDogLake featured our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. They hosted our authors...

18 Nov 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #8

In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace’s Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times will be available very soon! To subscribe...

William E. Wallace | 18 Nov 2009

Water on the Moon!

Remember NASA’s LCROSS probe that smacked into the lunar pole a little while back? Analysis of the dust kicked up showed “significant amounts” of water! Nice work, folks. The report >> Read More ?

13 Nov 2009

Veteran’s Day 2009

Today is Veteran’s Day, and so I give you my favorite piece from today’s papers: “…Oil from the engine covered the windscreen of his Hurricane so he climbed away, slowed the aircraft...

11 Nov 2009

Rain Taxi reviews Wajnryb

One of my favorite Cambridge books I’ve read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb’s You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert (the English language, that is) who parses...

11 Nov 2009