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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 18 Nov 2009

    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.

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  • 18 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #8

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: Michelangelo's great architecture project - the Roman Campidoglio plaza.

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  • 13 Nov 2009

    Water on the Moon!

    Remember NASA’s LCROSS probe that smacked into the lunar pole a little while back? Analysis of the dust kicked up showed “significant amounts” of water! Nice work, folks. The report >>

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  • 11 Nov 2009

    Veteran’s Day 2009

    Today is Veteran’s Day, and so I give you my favorite piece from today’s papers: “…Oil from the engine covered the windscreen of his Hurricane so he climbed away, slowed the aircraft down to almost stalling speed, loosened his harness, stood on his seat and leant out of the cockpit in an attempt to clean […]

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  • 11 Nov 2009

    Rain Taxi reviews Wajnryb

    One of my favorite Cambridge books I've read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb's You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.

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  • 11 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #7

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace’s Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times will be widely available later this fall.

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  • 10 Nov 2009

    Heart of the Galaxy

    They’ve done it again — three NASA observatories photograph the heart of the Milky Way.

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  • 4 Nov 2009

    A Nazi at Harvard

    In Anthony Grafton's review of "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower" for the NYRBlog, the indictment and complexities of US-German ties in academia in the buildup to World War II.

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