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Sexual Politics in Modern Iran author Janet Afary wrote an op-ed piece for yesterday’s Guardian full of fascinating insights into women’s place in modern Iran. Iranian policies over the past...
And the reviewer identifies the best quality of my favorite Cambridge books–they come with academic trappings and all the necessary scholarly apparatus, but “…reading it is far from homework:...
Why? Prime Minister Aso quite publicly bungled a televised reading test, confusing some characters that have, well, divergent meanings. From the AP via Yahoo News: ‘The Japanese leader bungled the...
Burton Weisbrod, one of the authors of Mission and Money did a very interesting Q & A with Inside Higher Ed today. Questions of university funding are now swept up in our economic mess, and for now,...
The Romantic Economist Richard Bronk chats with James Lovelock and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, on BBC’s The Forum. Bronk even provides the weekly 60 second idea to change the world. Bronk’s...
Grape vs. Grain author Charles Bamforth recently spoke at an Authors@Google event. See the video below! Truly entertaining stuff. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLHsUOraHI He even manages a jab at the...
Marci Hamilton will join a panel discussion called Legal Responses to Abuse in Religious Communities on Tuesday, March 3. C-SPAN’s Book TV will be taping as well. The Justice Denied author’s...
Earlier this week, the Times reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will likely issue an arrest warrant for Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. This would be the first such warrant for a sitting...
Southeast rep Alex Beguin braves the wintry cold of Western NY and lives to tell about it. Special bonus road mix-tape inside! On a recent trip to Western New York (yes, I traveled there in February),...
Roger Pielke’s The Honest Broker is a cautionary piece. So you’re a scientist, and in addition to your research, you want to engage the public sphere. Pielke’s point: when influencing...
The NYT column Proof is about alcohol and society, and on the 20th, former bartender Brian McDonald poured a literary concoction of drunken writers and poets, Under the Literary Influence. For McDonald,...
The biggest bang we know of since the Big Bang was confirmed last Thursday, February 19. It’s Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) 080916C, spotted by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at 7:13 pm EDT on September...
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