The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in the 1970s and have long outlasted their expected lifespans. They’re both in interstellar space, which Voyager 1 and 2 project manager Suzanne Dodd describes as a “high-radiation environment that no…
Every shower that falls, every change of temperature that occurs, and every wind that blows, leaves on the vegetable world the traces of its passage; slight, indeed, and imperceptible, perhaps, to us, but not the less permanently recorded in the…
We already knew the chatty host of the B&B wasn’t who she seemed — surely none of her guests bargain for a secret surveillance room and a behind-the-scenes worker monitoring the York’s activities. After she and the rest of her…
She will take up her new position at Duke this fall. Ásta works in metaphysics, social philosophy, and feminist theory, and on related topics in philosophy of language and epistemology. She is the author of, among other things, Categories We Live…
Over two years since its last attempt, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is heading for the International Space Station. “Through adversity, our teams have continued to innovate for the benefit of our nation and all of humanity,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said…
Lia Betti, a senior lecturer in evolutionary anthropology at Roehampton, tweeted that the university is “closing Anthropology, Philosophy, Classics, Creating Writing, and several other programmes,” and concentrating on “developing programmes with practical skills and industry/employer engagements.” She adds, “this is…
The Lakatos Award includes a prize of £10,000 (approximately ,500) and the delivery of a lecture at the LSE. The Dialogical Roots of Deduction is praised by the Selectors as a “masterwork” that is “absolutely fascinating” and in which “we…
What’s the difference between 5G home internet and cable internet? James Martin/CNET Cable internet — whether coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable or a hybrid of the two — relies on wires to transmit data from a central hub into your home. But…
The Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh has posted a brief memorial notice here. In a post about McGuire and his work—the first in a planned series about McGuire’s “towering contributions,” Eric Schliesser…
That year, he began — though he did not yet know it, as we never do — the long gestation of what would become not only his greatest creative and spiritual triumph, not only a turning point in the history…