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The Duty of a Death Case Judge

Sharon Keller, Troy Davis, and the Duty of a Death Case Judge Steve Sheppard (from FindLaw), Monday, August 24 No obligation of a judge is more awful than to rule on who should live and who should die...

Stephen Sheppard | 24 Aug 2009

More challenges to Google Books

It’s not over yet! The New York Times today reported on a new challenge to Google’s book scanning project. Read More ?

19 Aug 2009

Samuel Johnson and the Ossian Fraud

3rd Century Gaelic-language poet Ossian lies at the center of a giant case of 18th Century copyright infringement! Well, there wasn’t exactly a copyright involved, let’s call this a case of...

Thomas Curley | 18 Aug 2009

Michael Ruse: New Atheism "A Bloody Disaster"

Writing for BeliefNet, author and philosopher Michael Ruse writes on religion and science, and why New Atheism doesn’t engage either end properly. In my seventieth year I find myself in a very peculiar...

Michael Ruse | 17 Aug 2009

Blame the Fifties?

At NRO’s The Corner, books editor Mike Potemra discusses Alan Petigny’s The Permissive Society. “…much of what the Sixties-haters deplore actually goes back to the Fifties.” Read More ?

17 Aug 2009

Weiler: Critics of Health Bill Describe the Status Quo

Writing for The Huffington Post, author Jonathan Weiler parses criticisms of Obama’s health bill, arguing that the nightmarish scenarios that they imagine under government health care are already...

Jonathan Weiler | 14 Aug 2009

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

Wow. Astronomers, take a look: astronomers have assembled a 3-D image of the recent ultra field Hubble images. Aimed at a black patch of sky, the telescope revealed thousands of individual galaxies. Here,...

13 Aug 2009

Norwood gets the Page 99 Test

Stephen Norwood applied the Page 99 Test to his The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. It “focuses on Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler’s expulsion of Robert Burke for leading a...

11 Aug 2009

Print-on-demand brings library collection off the stacks

Michael Duncan A book on Darwinism by the other great theorist of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Two preliminary essays to On the Origin of Species. Family reminiscences of Jane Austen gathered...

7 Aug 2009

The New Coolest Profession: Statistician

In today’s New York Times, a wonderful piece – the cool profession of the future: statistician. My mathematician friends rejoice! Read More ?

6 Aug 2009

Does Your Mind’s Eye See This?

Debbie Balkaran writes on Charles Bonnet and the syndrome that bears his name “His mind makes merry with the images. His brain is a theatre where the state machinery puts on performances which are all...

4 Aug 2009

LHC Has Bad Wiring

Does the summer heat have your liquid helium-cooled superconductivity in a quench? That’s nothing compared to the current state of the Large Hadron Collider. Read More ?

4 Aug 2009