Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?
An academic Eden where you could do mathematics, uninterrupted by worries about money or sour cream. Was that even real?
Olga Holtz in My Random Walks with Pólya and Szegő
What is a state? We propose our own response as sociologists and anthropologists. But the specificity of our approach resides in its method: ethnography.
Didier Fassin in What Is a State?
Why did polymath Joris Hoefnagel, in the midst of the Dutch Revolt, produce an illustrated volume of hundreds of insects?
Marisa Anne Bass in Insect Artifice: Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands
