The Discovery of Insulin
An excerpt from Diabetes: The Biography.
Riddle Me When? Something.
The answer to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Friday Cat Blogging: Jennifer Weber
Cats brighten our days.
Riddle Me When, Riddle Me Why…
A tricky riddle from Gordon Thompson.
No peace for a Cambridge Classics don
Professor Paul Cartledge on the cities of Ancient Greece.
Afghanistan and Vietnam: On Presidents and Pitfalls
Harm de Blij looks at Afghanistan and Vietnam.
Not Just Another (Black Is) Beautiful Face
LeeAnna Keith reflects on the role race may have played in the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama.
Golgi: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Golgi: A Biography of the Founder of Modern Neuroscience.
How We Look At Health Care
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
How Ferrets Identified a Virus
An excerpt from Viruses, Plagues, and History, showing how pigs, dogs, and ferrets helped identify influenza as a virus.
Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
Mario Savio: Freedom’s Orator
An excerpt from Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
Cuba: What Everyone Needs To Know
An excerpt from Cuba: What Everyone Needs To Know.
The English Girl and the Tsunami
An excerpt from Megadisasters by Florin Diacu
Did Director Steven Soderbergh Get The Chemistry Right…Again?
A chemical look at The Informant!.
A Defense of Armchair Generals
Elvin Lim looks at General Stanley McChrystal.