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Michelangelo Podcast Series #7

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...

William E. Wallace | 11 Nov 2009

Heart of the Galaxy

They’ve done it again — three NASA observatories photograph the heart of the Milky Way. Read More ?

10 Nov 2009

A Nazi at Harvard

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...

4 Nov 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #6

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...

William E. Wallace | 4 Nov 2009

Technological Medicine in the New York Times

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...

28 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #5

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...

William E. Wallace | 28 Oct 2009

Why DO we disagree about climate change?

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...

23 Oct 2009

Most Eminent Man of Letters and Numbers

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...

22 Oct 2009

Happy Birthday, Martin Gardner!

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...

21 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #4

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...

William E. Wallace | 21 Oct 2009

Obama, Afghanistan, and American History

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...

William O. Walker III | 20 Oct 2009

What Doctors are Missing

In his New York Review of Books article on the changes in medical culture, Jerome Groopman cites Stanley Reiser’s Technological Medicine. Read More ?

16 Oct 2009