In one of his most lyrical passages, Stephens animates the protagonist of the first fairy tale: Complement with these enchanting illustrations for Walter de la Mare’ fairy-poems by Rackham’s contemporary Dorothy Lathrop and the gifted teenage artist Virginia France Sterrett’s…
In the following figure, you can see which 10 journals have the highest proportion of articles by women and which have the least, for the periods of 1900-2009 and 2000-2009, color-coded by category: In conducting their study, the researchers divided…
While folks grab what they can– maybe a toothbrush, passport or coat– many also take their pets, including dogs, cats, rabbits and other critter companions. PETA UK, for example, is posting live updates on its efforts to rescue animals and…
You can check it out here. “Philosophy Takes on the News” is a new podcast that brings a few philosophers together for each episode to discuss various news stories. Topics range from matters such as the attack on Ukraine and…
Uma Shankar Sharma/Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. “BA.2 has a whole mess of new mutations that no one has tested,” Dr. Jeremy Luban, a virologist at…
Some Ukrainian researchers have called for an end to academic cooperation with Russian researchers and for them to be banned from journals and grant funding during Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Is this something the academic world should consider doing? Few…
What percentage of the potential referees who you ask to referee a new submission agree to do so? Or, to get at the matter another way, on average, how many referee requests must you make per new submission? As I…
Rachel Carson — the twentieth century’s great prose-poet of nature, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal, the Nobel of nature writing — would echo this sentiment in her sublime meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life; James Baldwin…
If you take a lot of group shots with friends or family, or love capturing broad scenic views during a hike, you might want the iPhone 11’s secondary lens with a wider field-of-view. The iPhone 11 has Night Mode too,…
Below is the complete text of Professor Heßbrüggen-Walter’s letter, which he posted publicly as an update on Facebook: Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter has resigned from his position as associate professor of philosophy with tenure at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)…
There is a sense among philosophers that they are behind other disciplines when it comes to public engagement. For instance, there have long been science-themed television programming, like 1980’s Cosmos and its sequels, and podcasts like Radiolab. Science has well-known venues for public…
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