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From the flowers to the stars, from ancient Egypt to modern day, maths is literally everywhere

How to spend your gift money this year? The 100 Notable Books list is a good place to start.

Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs look back on the books that have stuck with them in 2023.

In an era defined by anxiety, it would seem only natural that we should hanker after the eternal verities, as a bulwark against the threats and confusions…

Reality check by Bondo Wyszpolski “The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality,” by William Egginton (Pantheon, 338 pp…

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about reality and embraced paradoxical truths instead.

In classrooms, labs, dining facilities, and libraries across the Homewood campus, JHU faculty, staff, and students realized the benefits of being back together over the past year

Six scientists, including Carl Sagan, who proved nuclear war would produce "nuclear winter" were at first dismissed by the establishment. On Saturday they will receive an award as the world is the closest to nuclear war since 1962. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwNWBnlhlw Previous winners of

We measured the influence of these books using ranking analysis powered by machine learning and collected from a comprehensive online data repository. Each book was assigned an objective measure of influence within its subfield based on the number of references it has received in both the academic literature and the popular media. The result is a more unbiased, manipulation-resistant, and usable ranking. "Weve moved beyond impact conjecture to a more objective, data-driven view of books that ar...