Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s hardest questions: what, exactly, makes something alive. His framework for how ...
A long-overlooked 1929 account contains the earliest known reference to the anecdote, suggesting that the 27th president found himself trapped in a tub during a Mississippi River voyage Howard Dorre ...
About Event: Many American institutions today have become unmoored from their origins in ways that weaken their coherence and reduce their legitimacy. The 150th anniversary of the University of ...