Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics is Huang’s analysis of entrepreneurship in China. It argues that China’s amazing economic growth was accompanied by a tightening of government control...
Admittedly, there is some disconnect between myself, sitting at a desk in downtown New York City, and the tranquil, idyllic spires of Cambridge University. Cambridge University Press is a small part of...
Over at Astronomy.com, the website and blog of Astronomy magazine, Daniel Pendick has posted a Q&A with one of our longtime guides to the heavens, Stephen James O’Meara. This month, Cambridge...
Our own Teri Yoshiuchi stood behind chef Mario Batali this morning to ring the NASDAQ opening bell. Teri organized our office food drive, and joined other Food Bank for New York City volunteers for this...
Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton just sent me a couple of stories of interest in the recent cases involving abused children in the Orthodox Jewish communities of Brooklyn. Channel 11 news did a powerful...
So far in these posts we have looked at testable quantum gravity effects, but I have not said much about the ultimate theory of quantum gravity itself. There is a simple reason: I do not think we have...
Columnists have approached last week’s deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks from many angles, as William Kristol points out in his New York Times column today. Are we dealing with the a repressed minoritystriking...
The New York Times today has an article that speaks volumes about the publishing industry, especially to those who don’t realize how hectic it can be. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has stopped accepting...
In an Op-Ed in this morning’s New York Daily News, Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton decries another situation in which sexual abusers are shielded from public scrutiny. It’s a familiar...
Busted: Catherine de’Medici’s Italian Chefs Taught the French How to Cook According to legend, the turning point in the development of French gastronomy was 1533, when Catherine de’ Medici, daughter...
First off, newly syndicated readers who want to have access to my previous posts can find them archived here as well as listed on my own site here. After last week’s speculations on time I would...
A Revolution in Taste was profiled in The New Yorker just the other day! Pinkard reveals that before the storming of the Bastille a revolution took place at dinner tables all over France, when ornate,...