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On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by themed topiary gardens and a petting zoo with ......
Five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin's stories have been praised by the New York TimesBook Review as ""eerily funny, dexterous, and too haunting to be easily forgotten,"" with ""characters of such variety that no generalizations about them can apply."" In Don't Think, his ninth collection of short fiction, Burgin ......
In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India's Smallpox Eradication Program, which searched out ......
Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, ......
A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad
Ignorance, or the study of ignorance, is having a moment. Ignorance plays a powerful role in shaping public opinion, channeling our politics, and even directing scholarly research. The first collection of essays to grapple with the historical interplay between education and ignorance, Miseducation finds ignoranceand its social ......
Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countriesincluding China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuelahave developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal international political order. Meanwhile, the ......
In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry's discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of polar opposites: conscious or ......
Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima nuclear disaster? How did massive flood ......
From the moment the first player steps onto the ice, every conceivable principle of science is in play. To understand hockeyfully understand it. Alain Haché argues that you must first learn how ice reacts to a passing blade, how the trajectory and aerodynamics of the puck affect its chances of getting into the net, how the tension on the stick ......
