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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

Michelangelo Podcast Series #3

Part III: David 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 | 14 Oct 2009

Glenn Greenwald interviews Jonathan Weiler

Jonathan Weiler, co-author of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics appeared in a podcast interview with Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald. The book — Authoritarianism and Polarization...

13 Oct 2009

Hacked Robots!

Questions right out of Future Imperfect are considered over at Network World with the question: “How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?” Read More ?

8 Oct 2009

Globalization and Human Rights

When globalization gets messy, we have a number of problems. It gets blamed for human rights violations, even while it has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. It forces us to engage governments...

7 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #2

Part II: St. Peter’s Pieta 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...

William E. Wallace | 7 Oct 2009

Russell in graphic novel

A new graphic novel (reviewed in the Guardian) details the struggles of Bertrand Russell in striving toward mathematical and logical truth. Funny bit: In [Principia Mathematica], the authors famously take...

5 Oct 2009