A Q&A with Lee Clarke, author of Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination, who explains why playing the odds isn't a good bet when it comes to disasters. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Harold Pinter”
“Scholarship on the Edge”
It's not always bad to write in your books. Hey, it worked for Coleridge, Keats and Blake. What marginalia can tell us about "the reading mind." Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“The Symbolic Value of Literary Prizes”
Why are there so darn many, anyway, and what good are they? A Q&A with the author of The Economy of Prestige. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Harvard Researcher Probes the Minds of Alien Abductees”
If aliens aren't really abducting earthlings, why do so many people have such vivid memories of close encounters? A psychiatric researcher investigates. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
