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Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. In this 1970 file photo, author Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to reporters in Stockholm, Sweden, after collecting the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature. Russian news agencies report that Solzhenitsyn died late Sunday Aug. 3, 2008. In this Oct. 28, 1994 file picture, Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks in ...

Patristic Summaries, XV: The First Apology of Justin Martyr

With Justin Martyr's First Apology, adressed to the Emperor of Rome and his son, Christian writing enters a new phase. Justin has been called "the founder of theological literature," and one senses in reading him that there is a depth...

Massage, Hydrotherapy, and Hyperbaric Oxygenation

Swedish Massage - love it. Photo by Eggybird.Over at EliteFTS Nathan Williams takes a look at the literature on 3 common recovery techniques : Massage, Hydrotherapy, and Hyperbaric Oxygenation. Good stuff.

YA Wednesday: Margo Rabb, Skinny Girl, Ghostgirl, and John Wayne

In this edition of YA Wednesday, we have the authors who are published as YA, and the bloggers who have the review copies of their books piling up. Margo Rabb: "I'm YA, and I'm OK" The most interesting thing written about YA (or publishing in general) this week, by far, was Margo Rabb's great essay in this weekend's New York Times Book Review about the experience of publishing her first book, Cures for Heartbreak. In addition to personal anecdotes, the essay quotes last year's National Book Awa...

An Open Access partisan's view of "Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship"

There's been a good deal of online chatter about this recent Science article that discusses the effects of online access on scholarship -- see, e.g., discussions here and here and blog entries noted therein. The report is not available without paying a toll or subscription, but the abstract is freely visible: Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print -- scientists ...

The rise of post-apocalyptic literature -- for kids

Filed under: Kids 8-11, Teens & tweens, That's entertainmentHumanity has done its best to destroy itself, but didn't succeed completely -- a few plucky individuals have survived and have banded together to rebuild society... It's not an uncommon theme; in fact post-apocalyptic tales are a whole sub-genre of science fiction, with recent films like the Terminator, Matrix, and, of course, the Mad Max series bringing them to the mainstream. These darker tales can be fun, exciting, and even enlighten...

Best of Nature Network for Monday, July 7: Nobel Laureates in Berlin, Success in Science, and Science and Politics

A summary of the week's best discussions on Nature Network. With over 70 members, the Berlin group on Nature Network is gaining momentum. The group even has its own online calendar of upcoming NN Berlin events. The group’s administrator, Philipp Selenko, is organizing a series of dinners to take place during the International Congress of Genetics 2008 in Berlin this month, featuring speakers from the Congress. Eric Lander, Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi, and Elisa Izaurralde are among the sp...

Kinder, gentler: How to get an innocent person to confess to a crime

Long story short: "Make a kindly suggestion of guilt." And: "The more plausible the alleged act... the likelier the false confession." The May 2008 issue of The Atlantic magazine featured an item about a recent study in the psychology literature...

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith places incense at the Temple of Literature,Van Mieu, in Hanoi,Vietnam, Tuesday...

AP - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith places incense at the Temple of Literature,Van Mieu, in Hanoi,Vietnam, Tuesday, July 1, 2008.