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A new book review by Guy Middleton of Eric Cline’s Digging Up Armageddon. The book tells the story of an archeological team from the University of Chicago that began digging at Megiddo in the mid-1920s in search of Solomon’s once-great kingdom. https://t.co/fp3YEdgMat @digkabri https://t.co/68XOUcv6GP

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In Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications across the British Empire, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field. Reviewed by @DavidKordahl. https://t.co/qtIIFAF6ei https://t.co/rNhgVnmrNv

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In his book, Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra claims that, in his thoughts on British imperialism, he's very much a made member of the moral majority. But reviewer David Berlinski argues that the truth about the British Empire is larger than one might expect. https://t.co/2lJ5mc032j

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In Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA, Gareth Williams traces the stories of scientists who were involved in research on DNA and “were variously enthralled, seduced or infuriated” by it. Read the book review by Neeraja Sankaran. https://t.co/fkxmbxUEyz

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3/3 This letter is in response to an essay by Edmund Richardson, author of The King’s Shadow. In this essay, Richardson details the life of Henry Rawlinson, the famed orientalist who was the first Westerner to decipher the Behistun Inscription. https://t.co/BHXr5EUPz6

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Löb’s theorem and Curry’s paradox are two very closely related results in logic. Both are surprising, but one—Löb’s—is considered acceptable while the other—Curry’s—is not. In fact, both should fail. Read Zach Weber’s response to Graham Priest’s essay. https://t.co/k0KvvrzGnc https://t.co/jYLoCSMc6R

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Four years after the death of Stephen Hawking, Charles Seife published a biography, Hawking Hawking. It painted him as a second-rate physicist who manipulated the media for his own fame. Hawking’s student Bernard Carr shares his counter-perspective. https://t.co/t1OJWT1ky4 https://t.co/dgLgpisQ2n

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In The Dawn of Everything, speculative archaeology meets a personal advocacy of anarchy, and the result is “a new history of humanity.” Welcome anarchaeology. Read David Graeber and @davidwengrow's book review by Lawrence Rosen. https://t.co/E3Gi4K1s8z https://t.co/0Ppb55VmLN

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In a new letter, historian of science Neeraja Sankaran responds approvingly to a glowing review of her latest book A Tale of Two Viruses. It’s all in the details. https://t.co/mzDuZMQLVN https://t.co/KrrINJln5e

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Lawrence Krauss’s The Physics of Climate Change is an accurate portrayal of modern climate science, says @romps. There are, however, a few quibbles to be had with Robert Socolow’s review. https://t.co/2JdnXFtlMh https://t.co/EGsQAJCIEX

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