The trouble with literature and science is that most people think they have nothing in common. The former is imaginative, subjective, and mushy; the latter hard-minded, objective, and dry. Except when ...

IF we are told any oftener that ours is a scientific age, we shall soon believe it. There is a feeling that, since we are enjoying the material benefits conferred by science, we should gratefully ...

A new UTEP course called “Monster-ology” will connect science and literary analysis through different media to help students ...

THE rather widespread feeling that science and literature are, in some way, opposed to one another seems, at first sight, inexplicable. For we can say that science is merely a way of ordering ...

1. Never did it occur to me that I would ever be this closely associated with the world of literature, especially as I to this day feel no particular fondness for it. Many roads lead into the ...

We don’t need to remember everything. In today's Academic Minute, Torsa Ghosal of California State University, Sacramento, examines why forgetting may be a good thing from time to time. Ghosal is an ...

18th- and 19th-century literature, thought, and history of science; material culture; environmental humanities; the novel, including Modernism (Proust, and also English and German prose Modernism).

Peer review came about to ensure new scientific claims are vetted by scientists prior to publication. The practice is captured in the Ingelfinger Rule, named for the former editor in chief of the New ...