© 2003 The William Blake Archive, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi “The First Book of Urizen, as its title suggests, can be seen as the first book of Blake’s “Infernal Bible”. In it he offers an alternative view of creation in a rewriting of the biblical Book of Genesis. According to this…
One of 38 miniatures in watercolor from the “Aurora consurgens” (“Rising dawn”), an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century.
Is our universe just one of many? The idea may sound a bit bizarre, but it could be a reality, scientists say.
In a recent paper written specifically with social scientists in mind, Stuart West, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, lays down the power of the selfish gene. It’s a great paper that takes a look at why so many misconceptions have taken hold and lays out, in nonspecialist language, the reasons why most criticisms of…
Reports of dolphins interacting with dead members of their pod are raising questions about whether cetaceans understand the concept of death. Bottlenose dolphins in western Greece have been seen reacting to death differently depending on whether a pod member has died suddenly or after a longer period of illness.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.