Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight. Robert Oppenheimer’s isn’t the only ...
THE HEART OF THE WILD: Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future. Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Jonathan B. Losos. Princeton University Press. 280 pages $26.95. To define the word “wild” as ...
When the writhing throes of competing world empires roil my overactive mind, when even music won’t cure these 21 st-century blues, I can turn to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American ...
The scientific journal Nature wants to show people the nitty gritty of academic publishing. In a Monday editorial, the journal announced it would include peer review files with the papers it publishes ...