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Monthly Archives: March 2011

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  • 15 Mar 2011

    Show Us Your March Madness!

    It’s time for the Big Dance.  For the next three weeks, March Madness will sweep the nation, and fans nationwide are gearing up for sleepless nights, office bracket pools, and campus-wide rallies—all to follow the fate of the 68 teams in the tournament.

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  • 11 Mar 2011

    Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Honesty from an Experimentalist?

    Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters between physics luminary Christopher A. Fuchs and his friends, mentors, and other pioneers in the field. In our second installment, […]

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  • 8 Mar 2011
    Nancy Holmstrom, Ann Cudd

    Capitalism, For and Against: An Introduction to a Feminist Debate

    While political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women, the recently published Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate sees authors Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an actually […]

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  • 7 Mar 2011

    Financial Times on Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

    Tony Barber calls Michael Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy an “excellent study of the Mussolini era” that “gives a convincing account, based on much original research in the archives, of how the dictator and his followers deployed systematic violence over a period of more than 20 years that were the most shameful in Italian […]

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  • 4 Mar 2011

    Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Jazz, Quantum Entanglement, and a Lunchtime Buffet

    Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters between physics luminary Christopher A. Fuchs and his friends, mentors, and other pioneers in the field. In our first edition, […]

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