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Honored to have published what may be Gordon Wood’s final essay in @_NEQuarterly_. In it, he explored a profound transformation set in motion by the American Revolution: the gradual end of the private ownership of public power. Read it open access here: https://t.co/94Fj1dRBIW

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Devastated to hear of the death of Gordon Wood. The greatest of them all, among historians of the Constitution? Very possibly, and a man of extraordinary grace and kindness. https://t.co/uePtmO3hli

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New article spotlighting a key concept advocated in Raising AI — "translation mindset" — to celebrate the paperback release of Raising AI one year after the original hardcover impacted the literary conversation about AI and humanity. Translation mindset directly addresses Pope Leo’s warning against what he calls the “Babel syndrome” in his new encyclical on AI. Read it here https://t.co/fa51FXe1Vn

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The book looks at nonhierarchical and experimental media practices that develop new ways of producing knowledge about violence inflicted on both humans and the environment. https://t.co/Qyks2r04Cd @mitpress

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In case you missed it, “Conjuring the Void” is a beauty. It traces scientific visualizations of black holes and artists’ imaginative responses to ideas of darkness and void. Surely our only book with blurbs from Xu Bing and Brian Greene. https://t.co/mxDjLtXrdM

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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📚

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For millennia, architecture has tried to keep disease at bay — from lazarettos to sewage systems to sanatoriums. But as architectural historian Beatriz Colomina writes, architecture also “created its own monsters.” https://t.co/u1ci8JDAEG

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"At the peak of the first wave in the United States, the average respondent mistakenly believed that they supported significantly stricter restrictions at the onset of the first wave than they actually did." https://t.co/byhgNN3v7v

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A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences. Available in paperback and #openaccess editions! https://t.co/xcOi3D7A7F

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"Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read."
—Xu Bing

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This week's #openaccess feature: A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences. Also available in paperback!

Learn more/download: https://t.co/xcOi3D7A7F

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Are we entering a new Gilded Age? A fascinating Texas Public Radio interview by @DavidMartinDavi with Stanford economist Mordecai Kurz about his new book Private Power and Democracy’s Decline from @MITPress https://t.co/KKcrpQKsKn via @TPRNews

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"Philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith argued that while AI can make ... decisions, judgment requires something else: human deliberation about how to apply ethical ideals under particular conditions, and grappling with others’ views about what is at stake." https://t.co/W6JTnT2rY8

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Today, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and MIT Press announce a new joint mathematics book series, POLYMATH, which will present readers with rich, accessible, and irresistible mathematics books for a general audience.

The first book in the series will be Double-Take: A Field Guide to Optical Illusions, Magic, and Movie Tricks Arising from Perspective Geometry by acclaimed mathematician Annalisa Crannell, publishing in fall 2027. In her Double-Take, Crannell investigates how artists, magicians, and Hollywood cinematographers exploit the geometry of perspective to baffle, tease, and hoodwink the viewer.

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A meteoroid’s midair blast over Massachusetts was a reminder that Earth sits in a “celestial shooting gallery.” Science writer and astronomer Govert Schilling asks what planetary defense would really require — and what could go wrong. https://t.co/Df5JDzKzUO

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A rich, thorough exploration of infinity that combines mathematical precision with playful, accessible coverage of a fascinating variety of paradoxes and conundrums.

@JDHamkins's "The Book of Infinity" publishes in August! https://t.co/RIPeTGe74X

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"This highly entertaining, dare we say absorbing, book is 'a sort of Around the World in Eighty Toilets,' as Sir Peter Bazalgette — whose great-great-grandfather designed the London sewer system — proclaims in his foreword."
—New York Times Book Review

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[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

Ebola has a running head start. By the time the outbreak in DRC was detected, there were already many suspected cases and deaths. We’ve seen that if you reach an Ebola outbreak in days, you can stop it in weeks. Months of delay? It will take much, much longer. That’s why countries need to surge support to affected communities now. https://t.co/jkMXQwZ55w

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Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations... https://t.co/l7egkO79vc

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"Audrey Watters ... argues that despite tech titans’ futuristic rhetoric, what they’re selling is not, in fact, about the future at all. Rather, it’s a warmed-over Cold War fantasy that robot tutors can prevent another national embarrassment like Sputnik." https://t.co/PpyCU76b3G