Storm Surge and Hurricane Sandy
November 1, 2012
Fredric Raichlen, author of Waves, explains storm surge and Hurricane Sandy’s impact on beaches.
1975: Bicycling Science
David Gordon Wilson, coauthor (with Frank Rowland Whitt), reflects on Bicycling Science:
1972: Learning From Las Vegas
October 31, 2012
Day 10’s anniversary post celebrates Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour.
1969: Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
October 30, 2012
We’re featuring Hans Wingler’s Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago for day 9 of our 50th anniversary series.
1969: Perceptrons Intro and 1969: The Sciences of the Artificial
Here is our day 8 post, which was delayed due to Hurricane Sandy. We’ve grouped a couple of books again:
1965: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
October 28, 2012
For day 7 of our 50th anniversary series, David Pesetsky, Head, Linguistics Section, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, reflects on Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky:
1962: Thought and Language; 1981: Mind Design; and 1983: The Modularity of Mind
October 27, 2012
We’re covering three books for day 6 of our 50th anniversary series.
David Wojnarowicz
October 26, 2012
October is LGBT History Month. Last Friday, we posted an excerpt from Abdellah Taia’s An Arab Melancholia. Today’s post is an excerpt from an interview with Marion Scemama in Sylvère Lotringer and Giancarlo Ambrosino’s David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side.
The Cost of Knowledge
Our Open Access Week celebration ends with a guest post from Gaëlle Krikorian, coeditor of Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Books).
1962: Strategy and Structure & 1988: The Theory of Industrial Organization
We’ve grouped a couple of books for day 5 of our 50th anniversary series.