August 7, 2013

Salmon, Starkman, and Chittum on Bezos's Purchase of the Washington Post

What did some of the editors of The Best Business Writing think about Jeff Bezos’s purchase of The Washington Post, which will surely be one of the biggest business and journalism stories of the year. The Audit, a feature on...

August 6, 2013

Donald Prothero — Bigfoot DNA? It's Playing Possum

The following post by Donald Prothero, coauthor of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, was originally published on the Skepticblog: Last February, the news and blogosphere was buzzing with excitement. Someone had claimed that they...

August 6, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, and More New Titles

The following books are now available: Democracy and Islam in Indonesia Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women’s Mystical Texts Patricia Dailey The Hungarians of Slovakia in 1938 Attila Simon

August 2, 2013

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August 2, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier — Nature Has All the Answers

“Spock said it best: “Live long and prosper.” I believe that is everyone’s wish. I also believe that our parasites, despite their own selfish behavior, can help us do just that.”—Dickson D. Despommier In the concluding chapter to People, Parasites,...

August 1, 2013

How Parasites Almost Saved Yul Brenner's Life

The Six-Point Inspection, offer readers with very helpful capsule summaries and reviews of science and technology books exploring complex and nuanced ideas. For those of us who like to knock one back every so often, they also helpfully provide “cocktail...

July 31, 2013

World Literature Today Interviews Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky, Editors of In Translation

“Translators in the anglophone world are sometimes perceived as being on a ‘lower rung.’ The essays in our book certainly don’t subscribe to that view. Would we say that an actor is on a lower rung than the screenwriter who...

July 31, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier on How Parasites Can Prevent Disease

In following excerpt from People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson D. Despommier examines how some parasites might reduce the chance to suffer from other diseases: Some of the most interesting findings with regard to...

July 30, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier on What We Can Learn from Parasites

“Despite all our efforts, the parasites still have the upper hand. The question is: Do we have to sit there and take it like all the other hapless host species on our planet? Or can we use our ingenuity and...

July 30, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Plane Crashes, Design Thinking, the Newest from Donald Keene, and More New Titles!

The following books are now available: Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution Matt J. Rossano The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life Peter Rabins Solving Problems with Design Thinking:...

July 29, 2013

Between Sunrise and Sunless — Film by Rob Stone, Author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater

In this beautiful short film, Rob Stone, author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run, searches for Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) in Vienna on Bloomsday, 16 June 2013. As their absence reveals the city, so...

July 26, 2013

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