Archive for November, 2009
Happy 150th Bday, Origin!
Happy birthday, Origin! 150 years ago today, Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection was published.
We’ve released an anniversary edition, with an introduction by Jim Endersby. Endersby was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, listen here >>
Michelangelo Podcast Series #9
In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: the Florentine Pieta. Wallace is author of “Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times”.
Civil War Book Review: John Brown’s War Against Slavery
The excellent Civil War Book Review of LSU recently posted Grady Atwater’s review of Robert McGlone’s John Brown’s War Against Slavery.
Beautiful NASA video of weather systems
Via Gizmodo: a gorgeous NASA composite of weather systems on earth, developed at Goddard with the Earth System Modeling Framework.
FireDogLake Book Salon hosts Hetherington & Weiler
Sunday’s Book Salon discussion over at FireDogLake featured our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of ‘Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.’ Thanks to them for the great welcome and even better discussion.
