Last week’s edition of Nature carried an interesting review of Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross’s The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. As Nature’s
Robert Hariman, co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, was quoted at length in an interesting article posted to the
The New York Times brought the sad news this morning that Liam Rector, distinguished poet and educator, committed suicide on Wednesday morning at his home
The United States Army’s Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II has been drawing quite a bit of attention this week. With
With the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis many have turned their attention to the problems posed by America’s aging infrastructure. A potential sinkhole for millions
Last Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education carried a nice piece on sociologist Gary Allen Fine’s latest book, Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture
Would you rather chair your university department or manage an amateur softball team? Edwin Amenta, NYU professor of sociology and author of Professor Baseball: Searching
Lieutenant Col. John A. Nagl was featured yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss the recent re-publication of the U. S. Army’s Instructions for
Last Sunday the Los Angeles Times ran an interesting review of Pascal Richet’s new book, A Natural History of Time. Applauding some of the many