
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Galileo Galilei
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a…
New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-expanding festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and…
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
We live in a world of vivid colours and colour marks our psychological and social existence. But for…
Andrew Leigh offers five times you (maybe) didn’t know that you had participated in a randomised trial. Experiments have…
David J. Linden, professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has undertaken a huge task…
Award-winning adventure and science journalist, Leslie Anthony, offers five things you (maybe) didn’t know about the burgeoning environmental…
Susan Landau, author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, is a leading cybersecurity scholar and former…
Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded explores unrest in contemporary urban communities. Using examples from all over…
Lynne Vallone’s analytical tour-de-force, Big and Small, investigates bodily size difference as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought….
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s…
Patti M. Valkenburg – Patti Every now and then, I hear teachers lament that today’s children have changed….