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Summer 2026

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Flipping the Bird

The surprising strategy for minimizing precooked food waste.

By Summer Moore Batte

Biblio File: What to Read Now — Winter 2025
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Biblio File: What to Read Now — Winter 2025

New releases that inspire us.

Book Review: In Our Defense
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Book Review: In Our Defense

New and Notable

by Joel Stein

Atomic Habitat
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Atomic Habitat

How one quantum physicist sets the stage for big revelations about tiny things.

by Nestor Walters

Dialogue - Winter 2025
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Dialogue - Winter 2025

Creature Comfort
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Creature Comfort

Psychology and Life
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Psychology and Life

Remembering Professor Philip Zimbardo.

by Summer Moore Batte

His Idea Led to 20,000 Fewer Russian Nukes
Farewells

His Idea Led to 20,000 Fewer Russian Nukes

Thomas Neff, MS ’66, PhD ’73

by Kali Shiloh

Inquisitive Infectious Disease Expert
Farewells

Inquisitive Infectious Disease Expert

Janice “Wes” Yu Brown, ’81

by Kali Shiloh

Art and Soul
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Art and Soul

What Professor Alexander Nemerov cares about and why.

by Tracie White

Put It in Writing
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Put It in Writing

Cultural critic Rachel Syme wants us to embrace the outdated extravagance of the letter.

by Jennifer Reese