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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

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