Filed in A-Featured | July 31, 2009
David Michaels is the author of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health which explains how many of the scientists who spun science for tobacco have become practitioners in the lucrative world of product defense. Whatever the story- global warming, toxic chemicals, sugar and obesity, secondhand smoke- these scientists generate [...]
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs | July 31, 2009
What Rebecca has been reading.
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Biography & Film & Media | July 30, 2009
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 30, 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Poetry & Prose & Reference & UK | July 30, 2009
Some rain-related quotes from a rain-soaked Oxford.
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Biography | July 29, 2009
A look at Gypsy Rose Lee.
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | July 29, 2009
Anatoly Liberman tracks down the origins of the word “Sheeny” and its development into an ethnic slur.
Filed in A-Featured & Biography & Religion & UK & Western Religion | July 29, 2009
An excerpt from the late Professor Henry Chadwick’s recently-discovered biography of Augustine of Hippo.
Filed in A-Featured & Science & Technology | July 28, 2009
Douglas Phillips answers the question: Can I legally make my PC think it’s a Mac?
Filed in A-Featured & Music | July 28, 2009
A look at Michael Steinberg’s love of music in his own words.
