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...
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 ?
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...
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...
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...