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The podictionary word of the week is “geisha”.
Professor Richard Swinburne examines the philosophical argument to believe in God.
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “trash”.
Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.
Introducing Alexandra D’Arcy.
Elvin Lim looks at President Obama.
Edward Zelinsky looks at health care cost control.
If evolution is the opposite of Intelligent Design, can there be such a thing as non-random chance in evolution? In this passage, John C. Avise discusses how natural selection in genes is as precise as if it were planned, and further debunks the argument for Intelligent Design.
John Carey has been at various points in his life a soldier, a barman, a television critic, a beekeeper, a printmaker, and a professor of literature at Oxford. He is the Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times in London. His book, What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the claims […]
What Rebecca has been reading.
A look at the iPad.
The podictionary word of the week is “reptile”.
A short extract from James C. Whorton’s The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.
The author of Empire of Liberty, Gordon S. Wood, explains how the story of Rip Van Winkle epitomizes the cultural shift in American life from British colony to independent nation just a generation after the Revolution