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Yasheng Huang is a Pick of the Pile

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...

8 Dec 2008

I Have a Very Cool Employer

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...

8 Dec 2008

Astronomy Magazine on O’Meara’s Latest

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...

5 Dec 2008

NASDAQ Opening Bell for the Food Bank

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...

5 Dec 2008

Developments in Brooklyn Sex Abuse Cases

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...

4 Dec 2008

Aristotle May Provide the Key to Quantum Gravity

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...

Shahn Majid | 2 Dec 2008

Jihad’s True Face

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...

1 Dec 2008

Publishing in a Recession

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...

26 Nov 2008

Hamilton on Sex Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community

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...

Marci A. Hamilton | 21 Nov 2008

Busting French Cuisine Myths

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...

Susan Pinkard | 19 Nov 2008

Quantum Anomaly and the Origin of Time

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...

Shahn Majid | 18 Nov 2008

Susan Pinkard: French Food History Savante

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,...

Susan Pinkard | 17 Nov 2008