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Yesterday we presented part 1 in a 5 part series about The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynn Viola. Today Viola takes us inside the archives in Moscow.
Ben’s Place of The Week is Tsukiji, Japan.
Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union has left many unanswered questions but in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Lynne Viola answers one: what happened to millions of peasants in the 1930’s.
What are the real reasons that Americans are getting fatter?
Happy Friday everyone!
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
On this day in history the NYSE was formed, we take a closer look.
Stuart P. Green looks at the case of Lord John Browne, once hailed as the “Sun King of the oil industry.”
Andrew Smith, our go-to American Food guru is back again this week with a look at American food trends. What trend do you think has been, and will be, the most influential: Fast Food, Slow Food, Factory Farms or Organic Farms?
By Anatoly Liberman The names of musical instruments are often loanwords, in English they are usually from Greek (via French intermediaries) or Italian. Sometimes their original forms are transparent. Thus the medieval wind instrument shawm goes back to Greek kalamos “reed”; nothing could be simpler.
An excerpt from the first chapter of Philip Jenkins’s God’s Continent.
Ben’s Place of the Week shares it love of a good beer.
Philip Jenkins author of God’s Continent answers some questions for OUP.
An excerpt from When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish… about Marfan syndrome.
I’ve been waiting for ‘When A Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish’ to come out in paperback for a long time! It’s one of those books where you’re so immersed in the stories you only realize later, after you put it down, how much you’ve learned. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter Two; ‘Just One Bad Apple’.
Eve Mason Ekman comments on the problem of balancing careers with children.