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Happy Birthday, NASA!

October 1, 2013

Today marks the 55th anniversary of NASA's creation. The agency became operational on this day in 1958.

The IPCC Report: Climate Change and the Moral Economy of Inaction

On the eve of the release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we thought we should ask Jörg Friedrichs, the author of The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Chan...

Effective Cycling

As the Tour of Britain comes to an end this weekend and fans watch to see who emerges victorious at the finish line, enjoy this excerpt from John Forester's Effective Cycling on the art of bicycle...

The Grand Master's Birthday

Happy Birthday to the Grand Master, Lee Kuan Yew! For his birthday we have an excerpt from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World explaining how Mr....

In memoriam: Daniel L. Schodek

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our author Daniel L. Schodek who passed away on August 27 at the age of 72. Schodek, a leading figure in architectural technology, was an emeritu...