New Year’s Eve Folklore
What are your New Year’s Eve traditions?
Superman Promoted the “American Way”
An excerpt from Inventing the “American Way”.
After Khomeini:
President Ahmadinejad’s Hardliner Populism and Nuclear Policy
An excerpt from After Khomeini.
Sean Sime on A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Sean Sime talks birds.
The ABC’s of Health Education
Some entries from The Dictionary of Health Education.
The Challenges of Teaching Introductory Psychology Courses
An excerpt from Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
Brooklyn: “The Hippest Part of New York City”
Sharon Zukin offers readers a glimpse of Brooklyn.
To Howard Dean: It is 2009, not 1965
Elvin Lim addresses Howard Dean.
Holiday Book Bonanza ’09: Donald Ritchie
Donald Ritchie’s favorite book is True Compass.
Assessing Obama’s Nobel Acceptance Speech
Elvin Lim looks at Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech.
From Los Alamos to Oslo (Via Reykjavik):
A Vision Beyond Nuclearism
Nigel Young explains why this Nobel Peace Prize marks a major turning point in peace studies and nuclear disarmament.
Bend The Cost Curve:
Raise the Medicare Eligibility Age to 67
Edward Zelinsky looks at a way to control future Medicare costs.
Countdown to Copenhagen: Gordon Wilson
Gordon Wilson blogs for OUPblog’s Countdown to Copenhagen week.
When Right is Not Easy:
Social Work and Moral Courage
Allan Barsky looks at moral courage.
Countdown to Copenhagen: Jan Zalasiewicz
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks about the new epoch we live in and what the human legacy might look like in future Earth’s strata.
Countdown to Copenhagen: Donald N. Zillman
Donald N. Zillman contributes to OUPblog’s Countdown to Copenhagen week.