Interview Nicholas Buccola on The Fire is Upon Us November 14, 2019 On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. Read More
Interview Naomi Oreskes on Why Trust Science? November 13, 2019 Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? Read More
Essay A look inside Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics November 12, 2019 Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. Read More
Essay A look inside The Nevada Test Site November 11, 2019 More nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding more than a thousand nuclear tests that left swaths of the American Southwest resembling the moon. Read More
Essay How to Build Community November 06, 2019 In the pages聽and impact聽of each book can be found the work of as many as 35 different individuals鈥攆rom editorial assistant to聽metadata manager鈥攁nd that doesn鈥檛 include readers and listeners, which increase the individuals involved in a book in exponential ways. Read More
Essay By Design | Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore November 05, 2019 Playfully illustrated by Amy Jean Porter, Fungipedia is an accessible, and sometimes irreverent, tour of mycology: a mini encyclopedia of mushrooms, for all intents and purposes. Read More
Interview Will AI Become Conscious? A Conversation with Susan Schneider November 04, 2019 Consciousness is the felt quality of experience. When you see a wave cresting on a beach, smell the aroma of freshly baked bread, or feel the pain of stubbing your toe, you are having conscious experience. Read More
Interview David Richeson on Tales of Impossibility November 03, 2019 Tales of Impossibility聽recounts the intriguing story of the so-called 鈥榩roblems of antiquity,鈥� four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. Read More
Interview Sonia Contera on Nano Comes to Life November 01, 2019 Nano Comes to Life聽opens a window onto the nanoscale鈥攖he infinitesimal realm of proteins and聽DNA聽where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet鈥攁nd introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Read More
Interview First time author spotlight: James Lindley Wilson on Democratic Equality October 22, 2019 Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals. Read More
Essay A Website Story About Story October 16, 2019 In every book there is a story. For 快色直播, those stories might be about the magic of mushrooms, or the global struggle for human rights, or a narrative about narrative economics. Read More
Essay In Dialogue with Susan Mattern and Richard Bribiescas: Reframing how we think about aging October 09, 2019 Are we looking at male/female aging all wrong? Susan Mattern and Richard Bribiescas discuss. Read More
Interview Ryan Patrick Hanley on Adam Smith October 08, 2019 Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life.聽 Read More
Interview Philipp Ther on The Outsiders October 03, 2019 Philipp Ther provides needed perspective on today鈥檚 鈥渞efugee crisis,鈥� demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. Read More
Interview Michael Schmidt on Gilgamesh October 02, 2019 Poetry Day in the UK is October 3, the perfect time to revisit a lost poem鈥攁nd its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh聽is the most ancient long poem known to exist. Read More
