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Madness in Numbers
Christine von Oertzen
Theodore Porter’s book Genetics in the Madhouse describes the somewhat surprising origins of the study of human heredity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.
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Beyond Dignity
Sophia Catalano
Pico della Mirandola is today wrongly considered “a prophet of human dignity”—a title that Brian Copenhaver believes was thrust upon the Renaissance philosopher through the lens of subsequent ideas.
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The Restless Cosmopolitan
George Scialabba
From the Cynics to Adam Smith to today, Martha Nussbaum has followed one question through the history of moral philosophy: Are basic material and social resources essential to human dignity?
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The Good Soldier
David Berlinski
Whether about free will, consciousness, or what is fundamental in the universe, David Berlinski finds Brian Greene to be gabbling and inexact. Berlinski reviews Greene’s book Until the End of Time.
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A Gentle Giant
Robert MacLean Losee
Claude Shannon was an unmatched problem-solver, whether in electrical engineering, mathematics, or cryptography, but he is chiefly implicated in the creation of information theory.
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Ancient Associations
Richard Chacon
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory by Brian Hayden is the first new comparative study of secret societies in almost a century. Richard Chacon regards it as a landmark in anthropological research.
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From Conception to Kamchatka
Joshua Socolar
In The Second Kind of Impossible, Paul Steinhardt tells the story of his first encounters with quasicrystals and his subsequent decades-long search for a naturally formed example.
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Just a Thought
David Lobina
Inner Speech: New Voices contains papers by philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists, but linguists are thin on the ground. This is a mistake, David Lobina argues.
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Points and Lines
Daniel Kleitman
In Forbidden Configurations in Discrete Geometry, David Eppstein examines simple problems in plain geometry. Although most of the problems are relatively easy to grasp, general solutions are unknown.
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