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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

The Sky This Winter

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about holiday gifts for potential stargazers. I argued against buying a telescope as a first step, and instead encouraged people to begin with the naked eye or binoculars....

Paul Kinzer | 16 Dec 2009

Brother Consolmagno on Colbert Report

Brother Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory landed on the Colbert Report earlier this month, and I totally missed it until now! Consolmagno is an author of one of our perpetually best-loved astronomy...

15 Dec 2009