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In the beginning by Ross Anderson Ross Anderson is deputy editor at Aeon Magazine. He has written extensively about science and philosophy for several publications, including The Atlantic and The Economist. The Aeon 12 May 2015 From the Greek philosophers to Kant and beyond, Cosmology has been on a long, hot streak, racking up one imaginative and scientific triumph after anothe..

Life after death: the science of human decomposition Mo Costandi The Guardian Tuesday 5 May 2015 14.25 BST Last modified on Tuesday 5 May 2015 22.03 BST Far from being dead, a rotting human corpse is the cornerstone of a complex ecosystem. A better understanding of this ecosystem could have direct applications in forensic science Mummified human remains at the Southeast Texas A..

[최홍렬 기자의 진심] 50년 만의 옛집 툇마루… 의사詩人 눈물이 그렁그렁 최홍렬 주말뉴스부 차장 E-mail : hrchoi@chosun.com 1991년 입사해 사회 부문과 문화 부문에서 대충 10여년씩 근.. 1991년 입사해 사회 부문과 문화 부문에서 대충 10여년씩 근무했습니다. 사회부때 IMF 현대자동차 파업, 인천..

Confronting the Technological Society By Samuel Matiack This article appears in the SUMMER/FALL 2014 Issue of the New Atlantis In March 1962, a group of some two dozen experts met in Santa Barbara, California for a week-long conference sponsored by the editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The topic of discussion was “the nature of technology and its significance for hum..

The Temple of Perfection: A History of the Gym, by Eric Chaline Review: Exhaustive history of the gym takes us from ancient Greece to global business Rob Doyle The Irish Times Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 15:55 Why do people go to the gym? In this comprehensive history of the gym from its origins in the Greek Golden Age to the present, various answers are put forward: to train the body f..

Galilei Galileo (1615) Galileo’s Considerations on the Copernican Opinion Source: Galileo’s Considerations on the Copernican System, 1615, from The Galileo Affair, edited by Maurice Finocchiaro. Complete letter. In order to remove (as much as the blessed God allows me) the occasion to deviate from the most correct judgment about the resolution of the pending controversy, I ..

The Peripatetic Life of Isabella Bird By Cara Parks Published October 9, 2014 The Apendix Following the footsteps of the greatest female traveler of the nineteenth century. 1 When I am traveling, I find myself making mental lists, not of what I need to bring, but of what I’m missing. A scarf I haven’t seen since Lisbon, a sweater that was left on a plane, a book that may or..

Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness By Kristen D. Burton The Apendix Published December 3, 2014 “Alcohol, Death, and the Devil” by George Cruikshank, c. 1830. Library of Congress 1 During an evening of carousing and drinking at a Salisbury tavern, a soldier and his comrades were drinking to one another’s health. Then the soldier did the unthinkable: he dran..

The self is moral We tend to think that our memories determine our identity, but it’s moral character that really makes us who we are by Nina Strohminger Nina Strohminger is a psychologist at Duke University in North Carolina. Aeon / 17 November 2014 One morning after her accident, a woman I’ll call Kate awoke in a daze. She looked at the man next to her in bed. He resemble..

What is the value of toleration? Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem Is the defence of free speech and toleration merely another name for indifference, asks Piers Benn by Piers Benn / October 22, 2014 / Prospect John Stuart Mill’s classic work On Liberty informs much of our thinking on toleration Many people living in liberal societies take it for granted ..