New books and articles

06/09/2021 - 12:47

When John Randolph wrote his first book, about the lives of the Bakunin family in 19th-Century Russia, he had mountains of source... →

31/08/2021 - 19:22

In his new book, “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern chronicles the rise of Gamow and Hoyle into leaders of mostly opposing views of... →

23/08/2021 - 13:59

Frankel (not to be confused with Berkeley author and spiritual teacher Estelle Frankel) teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara and... →

17/08/2021 - 13:20

In his lab at Linköping University in Sweden, Per Jensen, a professor of ethology, is trying to recreate this domestication process in... →

09/08/2021 - 12:45

There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there are "35... →

29/07/2021 - 14:28

Mission accomplished, the two taikonauts – China’s astronauts – clambered back into their home for the next three months: Beijing’s new... →

20/07/2021 - 13:03

Here, archaeologists might refer to ‘diffusion’ among the groups, a vague 19th-century term suggesting that the movement of cultural... →

11/07/2021 - 13:56

I was returning to London, where the leader of the Labour party was protesting that he was the victim of prejudice, had always... →

05/07/2021 - 13:28

Those extensive viral regions are much more than evolutionary relics: They may be deeply involved with a wide range of diseases including... →

28/06/2021 - 13:06

Francesco d’Errico, an archaeologist at the University of Bordeaux, France, has an idea about the marks. He has examined many ancient... →

23/06/2021 - 11:40

Sworn to secrecy about their true identities for their own safety, these brave young men assumed English noms de guerre. Only one person, a... →

16/06/2021 - 11:40

eople often feel that they can intuitively recognize whether something is alive, but nature is filled with entities that flout easy... →

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