Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City – Florence Under Siege by John Henderson
In Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, John Henderson examines how a major city…
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Take a tour of blue with new book ‘On Color’
We live in a world of vivid colours and colour marks our psychological and social existence. But for…
5 Times You Didn’t Know You Had Participated in a Randomised Trial – Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh offers five times you (maybe) didn’t know that you had participated in a randomised trial. Experiments have…
“What idea about brain function would you like to explain to the world?” – David J. Linden
David J. Linden, professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has undertaken a huge task…
Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Biological Invasions
Award-winning adventure and science journalist, Leslie Anthony, offers five things you (maybe) didn’t know about the burgeoning environmental…
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age – Susan Landau
Susan Landau, author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, is a leading cybersecurity scholar and former…
Who Loves Ferguson? – An Extract from Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage
Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded explores unrest in contemporary urban communities. Using examples from all over…
A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies by Lynne Vallone
Lynne Vallone’s analytical tour-de-force, Big and Small, investigates bodily size difference as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought….
A Q&A with Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
Mortuaries, Medicine and Money by Naomi Pfeffer
The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s…
Changing Technology, Changing Childhood by Patti M. Valkenburg
Patti M. Valkenburg – Patti Every now and then, I hear teachers lament that today’s children have changed….
Spring Reading at Yale: Science Spotlight
With winter firmly behind us, we thought we’d take a stroll through our Yale spring reading favourites, with a…
Consumers and the Path to Safely-Produced Products by Paul Blanc
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…
Has Culture Replaced Natural Selection? – By Scott Solomon
Scott Solomon, an evolutionary biologist, provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens as he introduces his new book Future…
All These Worlds Are Yours: An Astrobiologist Down Under
Jon Willis, author of All These Worlds Are Yours — “So you want to fly to an iron ore…