Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution June 03, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Is artificial intelligence today where brain research was 100 years ago? June 02, 2021 Babies are not born with randomly connected brains and turned on to learn. And yet, 100 years ago, neurobiologists were not so sure. Read More
Visualizing Dunhuang: A look inside the nine‑volume set June 01, 2021 We invite you to take a look inside this stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern China. Read More
Book Club Pick: 1177 B.C. June 01, 2021 This month’s Book Club Pick is Eric Cline’s bestselling book, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. As we head into summer, this bold and breathtaking book is a terrific book club choice and it is sure to lead to lively discussion. Read More
Summer listening June 01, 2021 Just in time for summer lounging, we invite you to browse a selection of our audiobooks, brought to you through our publishing program, Princeton Audio. Read More
How to make money in nanoseconds May 28, 2021 A geodesic is the shortest path on Earth’s surface between two given locations. From a professional trader’s point of view, the locations that nowadays matter most are not exchanges’ historic city-centre headquarters, but a couple of dozen unremarkable, mainly suburban buildings in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, buildings that usually could pass for a warehouse. Read More
The paradox of Chinese politics May 28, 2021 What should we make of a political system that is often repressive and not accountable to its people in elections, and yet can also be responsive to public opinion? That is the paradox of China’s political system in the twenty-first century. Read More
The world of Martin Luther May 25, 2021 The nineteenth century commemorated the Protestant hero Martin Luther with giant statues on a host of town squares across Germany. Read More
Listen in: The Spirit of Green May 24, 2021 Start listening to The Spirit of Green by William D. Nordhaus—an innovative account of how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems. Read More
I spent a year and a half at a ‘no-excuses’ charter school – this is what I saw May 19, 2021 Charter schools are 30 years old as of 2021, and the contentious debate about their merits and place in American society continues. Read More
After Callimachus: Poems May 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
From equal rights to full rights May 18, 2021 The Equal Rights Amendment, introduced in 1923, has resurfaced in 2021 after a long sleep. Whether it becomes part of the US Constitution is anyone’s guess, as is the practical effect of such a change given the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court. Read More
How the giving habits of the super‑rich affect the rest of us May 16, 2021 It’s the time of year when our personal finances come to the forefront, but not many Americans are aware that the spending and giving habits of the super-rich are having a direct impact on public provision and policy. Read More
Correcting the wealth gap May 14, 2021 With the tax season in full swing, it is wort reflecting on the purposes that taxes serve in society. One is state revenue; ensuring the acceptance of state issued currency in which taxes must be paid is another; and addressing inequality the third. Read More
Navigating college as a first generation student: An interview with Alvina Atkinson May 12, 2021 There is a startling disparity in the number of female math PhDs and tenured professors, as evidenced by the most recent research from the American Mathematical Society showing the percentage of men vs. women who earned a PhD in Math and are tenured. Read More