Author: Andrew Delbanco As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In “College,” prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of...
Authors: Richard V. Fisher, Grant Heiken, And Jeffrey Hulen Whenever a volcano threatens to erupt, scientists and adventurers from around the world flock to the site in response to the irresistible allure of one of nature’s most dangerous and unpredictable phenomena. In a unique book probing the science and mystery of these fiery features, the authors chronicle not only their geologic behavior but also their profound effect on human life.
Author: PETER R. GRANT “Enchanted by Daphne” is legendary ecologist Peter Grant’s personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II–era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galápagos archipelago, vividly describing what it’s like to do fieldwork in one of the most magnificent yet inhospitable places on Earth. This is also the story of two brilliant and courageous biologists raising a family together while...
Author: Jonathan Rosen “The Best Minds” is Jonathan Rosen’s brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. “The Best Minds” is a deeply sad book. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, “The Best Minds” is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of...
Author: Paul J. Nahin For centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s and came up short. The straightforward puzzle considers if there exists a simple symbolic formula for the following: 1+(1/2)^3+(1/3)^3+(1/4)^3+ . But why is this issue — the sum of the reciprocals of the positive integers cubed—so important? With “In Pursuit of Zeta-3,” popular math writer Paul Nahin investigates the history...
RIYADH: “Before the Coffee Gets Cold,” published in 2015, is a time travel-themed novel written by famous Japanese playwright Toshikazu Kawaguchi and translated to English by Geoffrey Trousselot. In the novel, four women wish to travel back in time for various reasons, whether to confront the man who left them, to receive a letter from a husband suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, to visit a loved one for the last time, or to see a daughter they were never able to meet.
Summer 2023 will be the first full summer season at Sleeping Giant Ski Area and Ziplines since the mountain’s ownership changed hands in 2020. Much of the activity underway this summer will improve the outdoor recreation experience for future winter seasons. For the first time since 2020, the Zipline Season at Sleeping Giant begins on…
Seiya Suzuki and the Chicago Cubs will play Anthony DeSclafani and the San Francisco Giants on Friday at 10:15 PM ET on NBCS-BA. Suzuki had two hits in his previous appearance, going 2-for-4 with a
Patrick Wisdom will try for a better performance after going hitless in his most recent game (0-for-3). He and the Chicago Cubs square off versus the San Francisco Giants on Friday, who will send o
Thairo Estrada and the San Francisco Giants take on the Chicago Cubs, and starting pitcher Marcus Stroman, on June 9 at 10:15 PM ET at Oracle Park. Estrada hit a homer in his previous game (going 1
Ian Happ’s Chicago Cubs play the San Francisco Giants on June 9 at 10:15 PM ET, and will see starting pitcher Anthony DeSclafani on the hill. Happ had one hit in his previous game, going 1-fo
Nico Hoerner will try for a better showing after going hitless in his last game (0-for-4). He and the Chicago Cubs square off versus the San Francisco Giants on Friday, who will send out Anthony De