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An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (Jul 10, 2024)

An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine.

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An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

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Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later G. Pascal Zachary (Jun 19, 2024)

On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the...

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Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later

G. Pascal Zachary

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

Beyond Repair: The Psychic Life of Reparation Carolyn Laubender (Jun 12, 2024)

Ten years ago, on June 15, 2014, Ta-Nishi Coates published his watershed Atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations.” An immediate cultural flashpoint, Coates’s piece sought to legitimize the demand for racial reparation in the contemporary United States by documenting how...

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Beyond Repair:

The Psychic Life of Reparation

Carolyn Laubender

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks (Jun 5, 2024)

In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in their own voices, and provide representation...

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Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know

Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

Eye of the Beholder: Perception of Art and the Brain Eric R. Kandel (May 29, 2024)

Art is not complete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer—that is, without our response to it. As a neuroscientist and a lover of art, I am fascinated by this response, which results from the interaction of two...

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