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Salon.com
February 20, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Why blacks love Bill Clinton In his new book, "Bill Clinton and Black America," DeWayne Wickham talks about African-Americans' overwhelming support for the 42nd president, and why they like him more than Colin Powell and Jesse Jackson...   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
An Irascible Genius and His Difference Engine Doron Swade's The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer tells the story of Babbage's lifelong dedication to the idea of the computer, from the moment in 1821 when he exclaimed that mathematics ought to be powered by steam... |
Salon.com
February 12, 2002
Laura Miller |
Better than a saint A new biography removes Abraham Lincoln's halo, revealing a man whose sheer human goodness remains mysterious... |
Science News
February 9, 2002 |
TimeLin:e February 6, 1932 Every snowflake a unique jewel... Scientists work to freshen stale air with electricity... Photographs record high speeds of atomic hearts... |
Salon.com
February 7, 2002
Jonathon Keats |
Apocalypse made easy A top-secret U.S. government scenario for the aftermath of nuclear war reveals something truly scary -- cockeyed optimism... |
Reason
February 2002
Nick Gillespie |
Dismal Humanists In How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics, David M. Levy revisits the debate between the pro-slavery Victorians and classical liberal abolitionists such as John Stuart Mill... |
Science News
February 2, 2002 |
TimeLine: January 30, 1932 Monte Alban treasure may set jewelry style... Beam radio may result in signals sent to Mars... Earthquakes and volcanoes to be studied at bottom of sea... |
Science News
January 26, 2002 |
TimeLine: January 23, 1932 Floodlights illuminate London's Tower Bridge... Anemia treated by injection of liver extract into vein... New speed record established by distant part of the universe... |
Wired
January 2002
Chip Bayers |
The Ultimate Management Team The chief financial officer reinvented compensation. The CEO ushered in the industrial age. The venture capitalist opened up the New World... |
Wired
January 2002
James Surowiecki |
Turn of the Century William Sellers knew that the end of the hand-tooled machine age was nigh. So he grabbed the manufacturing elite by the nuts and bolts and dragged them into the mass production era. A case study in the power of standards... |
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