After decades of retreat from the mainstream, economic history is making its way back to college curricula and scholarly publications. Today as always, present concerns stimulate academics’ choice of subject matter and approaches to historical inquiry.
Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?
Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back
How does one render an account of life that does justice to the complexity of its multiple dimensions, while at the same time representing it with a degree of unity?
Didier Fassin in Life: A Critical User's Manual
Gene regulatory networks are the source of many human diseases. How do we infer their structures from partial data?
Jennifer Chayes in The Age of Networks










