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Chemistry World
August 28, 2012
Andrea Sella |
Luer's syringe The Wulfing-Luers family left an indelible mark on the sciences with their syringes. The Luer-lok and Luer-slip are universal and the original 6 taper now has its own ISO, DIN and EN standards.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 30, 2012
Carmen Nobel |
How technology adoption affects global economies Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explores the historical hegemony of Western Europe through the lens of technology and geography. |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2012
Andrea Sella |
Luggin's capillary The Luggin capillary allowed chemists to get close to reactions at working electrodes |
AskMen.com
June 7, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Euro 2012 Host: Ukraine As Ukraine prepares to co-host Euro 2012, which begins Friday, the backdrop to soccer in this struggling country of 46 million people hasn't changed much. The game is still a great Ukrainian passion, and still a plaything of oligarchs and corrupt politicians. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Andrew Hodges |
Turing and the Test of Time Celebrating Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to the computer age |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2011
Catherine Baab-Muguira |
Did Our Founding Fathers Believe in Free Markets? It's complicated. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 16, 2011 |
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History The editors of Harvard Business School's Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, are challenging historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 7, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy In his new book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England. |
TIME Asia
November 14, 2011
Geoffrey Cain |
Good Intentions In his 1955 classic The Quiet American, Graham Greene adroitly foresaw the tragic and absurd quality that came to characterize U.S. intervention in Vietnam. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2011
Andy Extance |
Dirty Pots Reveal Ancient Fish Suppers 6000-year old cooking pot recovered from a Danish bog still holds traces of the last supper it held. |
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