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Good Eats
Vaclav Smil
Affluent countries currently produce far more food than they need, or could ever hope to consume. Vaclav Smil examines the enormity of this waste and its effects on health.
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The Director’s Cut
David Berlinski
One of the twentieth century’s great intellectual achievements is Kurt Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. For many mathematicians, Gödel’s work remains difficult, uncanny in its power.
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Reading Seawater
Marcia Bjornerud
Parsing the composition of seawater has been an age-old effort. Marcia Bjornerud reviews seawater’s history and its effects on the earth’s health, from ancient beliefs to modern research.
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Central Saharan Rock Art
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
On the sunburnt rocks of the central Sahara, ancient peoples inscribed testimony of their way of life. Jean-Loïc Le Quellec reviews the field of research into ancient central Saharan rupestrian art.
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Inequality and Human Rights
Katharine Young
Samuel Moyn argues that the human rights movement has done little to address economic inequality. Not so, according to Katharine Young. Good work promoting equality has been done, if not in the US.
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Divine Medicine
George Scialabba
In reviewing A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall, George Scialabba summarizes beer’s story, including its major historical moments, the science of its components, and its future.
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A Means to an End
Alberto Prieto
Can scientific and data-driven approaches help researchers reconstruct Roman history? Alberto Prieto reviews The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past.
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The Yin and Yang of the Genome
Tyler Hampton
If viruses have killed their millions, they have blessed their millions, too. Tyler Hampton reviews Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere, by Anna Marie Skalka.
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Only Connect
Daniel Kleitman
Fibonacci numbers, cellular automata, and an extension of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem: Daniel Kleitman reviews highlights from a volume honoring the mathematician Ron Graham on his eightieth birthday.
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