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In dialogue: Writing women’s history
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We asked four of our authors the following question: What do we find when we read ‘women’ into histories that often exclude them?
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The origins and importance of talk
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I come from a family of talkers. The household in which I grew up was always noisy. My parents were loud and opinionated, and interrupted and quarreled boisterously with each other.
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Venki Ramakrishnan on Virtual You
March 24, 2023
What are the prospects of simulating ourselves in a computer? At first sight, this sounds more science fiction than fact.
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How to see the world, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
March 15, 2023
Sitting before a lake one summer, Nathaniel Hawthorne took a newspaper from his pocket and began to read. His object was not to catch up on the news but to play a trick—to lull nature into a false sense of security, to make it think he was not perceiving the world around him, so he could look up suddenly and see the trees for how they really are.
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Office Hours with Kimberly Kay Hoang
March 14, 2023
This month, I am delighted to bring you Office Hours with Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of Spiderweb Capitalism. She has some excellent book recommendations, she offers valuable career advice for graduate students and junior faculty alike, and she shares a story that illuminates how a single conversation can completely change the trajectory of one’s research.
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Listen in: The Forest
March 25, 2023
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood.
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