Saturday, January 19, 2013
The Daily Scholar
Browsings Fridays
On Fridays, Michael Dirda explores the odd pleasures of the bookish life.
Book Projects
The Art of Keeping Busy
Michael Dirda
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Psycho Babble Thursdays
Demons Where Once There Were None
Exploring the darker powers of suggestion
Jessica Love
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Science Frictions Wednesdays
Toilet Talk, Part 2
New technology can save water and combat killer diseases
Priscilla Long
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Class Notes Tuesdays
Vocational Crisis
Slow down and take time to discover your life’s work
Paula Marantz Cohen
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All Points Mondays
Bubbles
What’s wrong with Bill Maher—and the rest of us
William Deresiewicz
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Cover Story
A New Birth of Reason
Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state
Susan Jacoby
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On Friendship
The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive
Edward Hoagland
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Our Imperiled World
It took billions of years to make the earth habitable for humans. A distinguished astronomer warns the United Nations how quickly that can be reversed
Owen Gingerich
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Eviction Noticed
Gentrification in Berlin shutters a bombed-out building where artists had squatted since the Wall came down
Bruce Falconer
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