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 widely available later this...
They’ve done it again — three NASA observatories photograph the heart of the Milky Way. Read More ?
In Anthony Grafton’s review of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower for the NYRBlog, the indictment and complexities of US-German ties in the buildup to World War II. In 1934, the Harvard class of...
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 widely available later this...
The New York Times Health section in tomorrow’s edition ran an excellent piece on Stanley Reiser’s Technological Medicine. The piece focuses on the uncomfortable tradeoff between technology...
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 widely available later this...
The NY Times Green Inc blog interviewed Mike Hulme today on major disagreements over geo-engineering. Have we painted ourselves into a corner? Hulme is the author of Why We Disagree About Climate Change. “With...
In his review of Gardner’s latest works for the Washington Post, Michael Dirda gives a charming rundown of Gardner’s long, involved, illustrious career of being the most math-savvy non-mathematician...
Yesterday’s New York Times featured John Tierney’s profile the great math puzzlist Martin Gardner for his 95th birthday, which is today. For today’s mathematical puzzle, assume that in the...
Part IV: Doni Tondo 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 widely available...
Writing for the History News Network, William O. Walker, author of National Security and Core Values in American History explains why, for the last century, American “security” intellectuals...
In his New York Review of Books article on the changes in medical culture, Jerome Groopman cites Stanley Reiser’s Technological Medicine. Read More ?