Last week, the American Cancer Society issued a statement clarifying its position on routine cancer screening. Upholding its existing guidelines for early detection, it affirmed that many cancer screening tests are proven …
Read More >This week in their travels along the 38th parallel, Janet and David Carle continued west, finding connections to water and the environment in a former pirates’ cave along the Ohio River, Kaskaskia …
Read More >Starbucks took hold so quickly and opened stores in so many places so fast that we learned to characterize a place as with Starbucks or without it—as part of the stream of …
Read More >Dragonlike and prehistoric-looking, monitor lizards, or varanids, are uncommonly intelligent: “I dare anybody to…look a monitor lizard in the eye. It’s looking back at you”, says Eric Pianka, lizard expert and co-author …
Read More >Paul Farmer, author and co-founder of Partners in Health, appeared on a recent panel at Dartmouth College called Reflections on Leadership for Social Change, part of the inauguration ceremony for Dartmouth’s new …
Read More >David and Janet Carle, who set out last month on a worldwide tour of water and environment issues along the 38th parallel, are traveling west across the United States. After visiting the …
Read More >UPDATE: Transcendental Studies is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. Transcendental Studies is a 2009 National Book Award finalist in poetry. This compelling selection of recent work by …
Read More >Novelist, emergency room doctor, essayist, poet — Frank Huyler is singular among writers. His second novel, Right of Thirst, was released to rave reviews this spring. UC Press has just published a …
Read More >Today’s New York Times Dining section features Oretta Zanini de Vita, author of Encyclopedia of Pasta, as she opens the door onto the centuries of history that shape each type of Italian …
Read More >Dr. Patrick E. McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist and author of Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages, works with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to resurrect the world’s …
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