To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters,
The current issue of Science magazine contains a glowing review of Martin J. S. Rudwick’s latest book, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in
Military technologies such as Predator drones and devices that protect American troops from Iraqi roadside bombs are in the news every day, but the story
Last Wednesday, September 10, after 14 years of preparation, scientists at the CERN laboratory switched on the Large Hadron Collider and the world didn’t end.
This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, but the fear of another global viral plague is far from history. As
The Los Angeles Times‘ Richard Rayner has written an excellent review of the Parker novels—a noir crime series written by Donald Westlake under the pseudonym
A variety of responses were possible on that day and in the days that followed. Once the fuse of necessity was lit, we
David Simpson, author of 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration wonders, where are the ghosts? Seven years after 9/11 one of the strangest things is that
The Fall 2008 print edition of the Rain Taxi Review of Books published a positive review of George E. Lewis’s new book A Power Stronger
A story on sex addiction in the Style section of Sunday’s New York Times caught our eye this weekend, so we asked our resident expert