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Ellen Wu on Nikki Haley and the role of the model minority
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Adrienne Mayor busts five myths about Amazon warrior women
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How Texas law will shape the women’s vote
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What should the presidential candidates be reading? WSJ: Robert Gordon’s book
According to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, “Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the...
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Philosopher Jason Stanley on Donald Trump and mass incarceration
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New History Catalog
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Emma’s Muslim Counterpart
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The Digital Einstein Papers: An Open Access Story
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Authors Matthew Gordon Lasner and Nicholas Dagen Bloom on the urban housing...
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Six Muslim Students in Jane Austen’s England
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View ArticleIntroducing the mesmerizing new trailer for Mathematics and Art
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Affordable Housing in New York: A Slideshow
An issue that has reappeared throughout New York City’s history is the challenge of finding affordable, yet high quality housing. Director of Urban Administration program at New York Institute of...
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Andrew Robinson to talk on “Einstein in Oxford” at Christ Church
In late 1915, in Berlin, Albert Einstein announced the general theory of relativity: his greatest achievement. In 1931-33, he lectured on relativity in Oxford, receiving an honorary degree from the...
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Happy 100th Anniversary to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity!
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Was Einstein the First to Discover General Relativity?
Today the world celebrates the day 100 years ago that Albert Einstein submitted his final version of the general theory of relativity to the Prussian Royal Academy. A theory of gravitation with...
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The Final Days of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein’s time on earth ended on April 18, 1955, at the Princeton Hospital. In April of 1955, shortly after Einstein’s death, a pathologist removed his brain without the permission of his...
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#ThanksEinstein: Alice Calaprice on the man behind the myth
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#ThanksEinstein: Jürgen Renn on popularizing Einstein
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#ThanksEinstein: J.P. Ostriker on Einstein and the wonder of pure thought
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#ThanksEinstein: Hanoch Gutfreund on the revelation of relativity
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