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This egg was discovered by a volunteer at Cambridge University’s zoology museum. From the BBC: It bears a large crack, caused after the great naturalist put it in a box that was too small for it....
Today, April 13, is Sam Beckett’s birthday (1906). What better gift to have than J. M. Coetzee’s New York Review of Books review of Letters? Read More ?
The sixth post in The Horse in Human History blog series. The ritual sport of buzkashi has traditionally been played by steppe tribes with the carcass of a goat, calf, or sheep. Whereas nowadays this equestrian...
We’re very sorry, but our office is closed tomorrow, Friday the 10th. So Free Book Friday will have to wait until next Friday. See you then! Read More ?
Kepler’s bookstore and Brown University Bookstore have won spots in our company apartment for Book Expo America! Congratulations; hope it helps you bring some extra folks along. Read more about it...
A New York Times Editorial notes a new development in the long-raging debate over when horses were first domesticated, and, more tough to tell, ridden. Pita Kelekna sent this to me. She’s always...
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently made use of Ellen Davis‘ arguments in the Ebor Lecture, the full text of which can be found here. An excerpt: We can’t as humans oblige the...
Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence?...
The 5th Installment The Horse in Human History Blog Series Pita Kelekna In 331 BC, of course, Alexander daringly overthrew Achaemenid might; notwithstanding, hostilities between Greece and Persia were...
177 years ago this weekend, Darwin received a bundle of letters from a ship in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. Correspondence such as these sustained his spirit during his long Beagle voyage. By this point,...
Wisconsin Public Radio‘s excellent Conversations with Larry Meiller interviewed Stargazing Basics author Paul Kinzer yesterday about the International Year of Astronomy. 400 years ago, Galileo first...
You may be thinking to yourself, “Gee, I’d love to come to Free Book Friday, but it’s rainy and nasty outside!” Your heart is in the right place. At this point, I’m sure it’s...
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