April 23, 2018 Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews
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COVER INTERVIEW OF


December 15, 2010

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Ann Fabian

 

On her book The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead

 

Tag: Death

Cover Interview of December 25, 2009
Wafaa Bilal On his book Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (with Kari Lydersen)

Cover Interview of October 30, 2009
Mark C. Taylor On his book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Cover Interview of March 10, 2009
Jonathan S. Burgess On his book The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

Cover Interview of February 24, 2009
Thomas M. Nichols On his book Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War

 
 
 

the science tag

Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.

Daryn Lehoux,
Interview of November 13, 2017




It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.

Christopher Rea,
Interview of October 26, 2016




 
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