Writing for the December issue of Oceanography, the official magazine of the American Oceanography Society, columnist Tom Garrison notes that it’s not often one comes
Bernard Harcourt, author of the recent Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age, gave a talk last month for the Chicago’s Best
You’ll never look with the same eyes at the British Museum’s legendary Egyptian collection—or any other exhibition, for that matter—after going behind the scenes with
Towards the end of each year the Times Literary Supplement solicits the opinions of some of their favorite authors and critics to recommend their personal
With commentators weighing in on everything from the metastasizing organic movement to the ubiquity of celebrity chefs, food is all over the news these days.
As noted by a recent review in the Wall Street Journal, in Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger,
Before we became a nation of e-mailing, text-messaging, Blackberrying technology addicts, we had to become a nation of letter writers. Why? The postal system, as
Taking its inspiration from Ebert’s own critical methodology as set forth in his new book Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Tara
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In 1909 Daniel Burnham authored The Plan of Chicago—a work that would prove to be one of the most important and influential documents in the
