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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

Chicago Tribune on New G.I. Bill

In an article about recent changes to the GI Bill, The Chicago Tribune spoke with Kathleen Frydl, author of The GI Bill: ” widows of servicemen killed in World War II… asked for tuition so...

3 Aug 2009

Vast Medieval Satanic Conspiracy

The Ideas section of the Boston Globe recently interviewed our own Christopher Mackay. Mackay translated the only accurate version of the highly influential medieval witch-hunting manual – Malleus...

3 Aug 2009

Kittens with Mittens

It’s Friday. In case that’s not enough to cheer you up, here’s an otherwise unrelated cat trying to walk with mittens on! Read More ?

31 Jul 2009

Janet Afary on Women’s Rights in Iran

Janet Afary concludes a dialogue with Nawal El Saadawi initiated at Double X earlier this month. Afary is a professor of religious studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara and author of Sexual...

Janet Afary | 30 Jul 2009

Turkington on VOA

Voice of America’s One Hour at a Time featured Cognitive Behavioral Therapy expert and psychiatrist Douglas Turkington on a recent show. Listen here! >> Read More ?

29 Jul 2009

Low-Cost, High-Quality, Fairly Simple Astro-photography

I have only recently started playing around with taking astrophotos through my Digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera, but, even with my limited experience, I’m very pleased with the results. If you...

Paul Kinzer | 29 Jul 2009