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Kristie Macrakis
Good morning, everyone. Feeling tired? On your third cup of coffee? I am. What better pick-me-up than one of the Stasi’s most ludicrous investigative methods, and one of their more amusing gadgets? Yes, it’s time to join Kristie Macrakis for another Spy-Tech Monday. This week: Taboo — Hide the Children! …and you wondered why […]
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Charles Bamforth
Charles Bamforth, brewing scientist extraordinaire, has a little lesson in diversity. Wines, after all, have an enormous range of flavors packed in just one fruit. You can have smoke, berry, licorice, pear, leather, grass, cat-pee (Chenin blanc, people, look it up). But as far as beer goes, Charles thinks it has more to offer. Read […]
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Fellow publicist Laura Evans reflects on the situation in Zimbabwe. Her recent trek to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro took her first to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. A few weeks ago I crossed over into Zimbabwe from Zambia at Victoria Falls, a lovely location where the Zambezi River suddenly falls over an abrupt 100 meter […]
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Marci A. Hamilton
They are not very convincing, actually. Marci Hamilton takes a scathing look at how ridiculous some of them sound, especially to the victims of childhood sexual abuse. As the second half of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge 2008) documents, there are powerful lobbies opposed to giving survivors of childhood […]
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James A. Winn
War poets bring an impossible beauty and entirely new perspective to the most awful of subjects. On Wednesdays, we’ll receive a new perspective on these writers. Yesterday’s New York Times ran a front-page story on the writings of American soldiers recently killed in Iraq. In the poems that have emerged from the conflict in Iraq, […]
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Nick Smith
Ever wondered what it’s like to be interviewed on the radio or television? It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Nick Smith, author of I Was Wrong: the Meanings of Apologies. Here are some of his thoughts on dropping everything for media appearances, his own radio idol, and being accused of having a speech […]
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Kristie Macrakis
It’s that time again. Kristie Macrakis, author of Seduced by Secrets, unveils some more Stasi spy gadgetry. The Stasi had a way about them. They loved their toys. As Macrakis argues, this obsession was part of their own undoing — rather than performing their duties as an intelligence agency, they focused on hoarding secrets and […]
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Charles Bamforth
Charles Bamforth is back with more on beer and wine from his perspective as a brewing scientist in the middle of wine country. Check him out every Friday right here. Want to know more about Bamforth’s illustrious history with beer? Check out Scientific American’s Science Talk interview from May 2007. In case there is any […]
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Kristie Macrakis
Good morning, everyone. Feeling tired? On your third cup of coffee? I am. What better pick-me-up than one of the Stasi’s most ludicrous investigative methods, and one of their more amusing gadgets? Yes, it’s time to join Kristie Macrakis for another Spy-Tech Monday. This week: Taboo — Hide the Children! …and you wondered why […]
Read More
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Charles Bamforth
Charles Bamforth, brewing scientist extraordinaire, has a little lesson in diversity. Wines, after all, have an enormous range of flavors packed in just one fruit. You can have smoke, berry, licorice, pear, leather, grass, cat-pee (Chenin blanc, people, look it up). But as far as beer goes, Charles thinks it has more to offer. Read […]
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Fellow publicist Laura Evans reflects on the situation in Zimbabwe. Her recent trek to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro took her first to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. A few weeks ago I crossed over into Zimbabwe from Zambia at Victoria Falls, a lovely location where the Zambezi River suddenly falls over an abrupt 100 meter […]
Read More
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Marci A. Hamilton
They are not very convincing, actually. Marci Hamilton takes a scathing look at how ridiculous some of them sound, especially to the victims of childhood sexual abuse. As the second half of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge 2008) documents, there are powerful lobbies opposed to giving survivors of childhood […]
Read More
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James A. Winn
War poets bring an impossible beauty and entirely new perspective to the most awful of subjects. On Wednesdays, we’ll receive a new perspective on these writers. Yesterday’s New York Times ran a front-page story on the writings of American soldiers recently killed in Iraq. In the poems that have emerged from the conflict in Iraq, […]
Read More
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Nick Smith
Ever wondered what it’s like to be interviewed on the radio or television? It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Nick Smith, author of I Was Wrong: the Meanings of Apologies. Here are some of his thoughts on dropping everything for media appearances, his own radio idol, and being accused of having a speech […]
Read More
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Kristie Macrakis
It’s that time again. Kristie Macrakis, author of Seduced by Secrets, unveils some more Stasi spy gadgetry. The Stasi had a way about them. They loved their toys. As Macrakis argues, this obsession was part of their own undoing — rather than performing their duties as an intelligence agency, they focused on hoarding secrets and […]
Read More
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Charles Bamforth
Charles Bamforth is back with more on beer and wine from his perspective as a brewing scientist in the middle of wine country. Check him out every Friday right here. Want to know more about Bamforth’s illustrious history with beer? Check out Scientific American’s Science Talk interview from May 2007. In case there is any […]
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