First Contact
How would you communicate with an alien? A look at how Science Fiction authors tackled the problem.
Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen by Peter M. Higgins.
Friday procrastination: link love – tongue twisters, particle accelerators, and New York
What Rebecca has been reading.
The Martians of Science: An Excerpt
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.
Surveillance and Spying in Film: I–Deja Vu
Nicole Rafter looks at Deja Vu.
Dickens And Christmas
A deeper look at the most famous Christmas Carol.
Oxford Companion to Wine
Rosé
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Miami Vice: Death of the Cop-Action Film?
Crime Films: A Monthly Column By Nicole Rafter Miami Vice is a major disappointment in an already frustrating movie summer. I had hoped for more not only because of the stylishness of the 1980s television series on which it is based but also because director Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) and Collateral (2004) had proved him […]