Ruth Padel, a contributor to Issue 9 of Interlitq, believes that “Scientists learn from zoo animals how to protect their wild cousins better”

Ruth Padel

Writing in The Guardian (22.03.13) in “Don’t let good zoos go extinct“, Ruth Padel, a contributor to Issue 9 of Interlitq, states that “Scientists learn from zoo animals how to protect their wild cousins better”.

In Manhattan, Reza Aslan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, to debate science and religion with David Eagleman

 

Reza Aslan

In Manhattan, Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, will debate (“Finding Our Way and Inventing Musical Instruments, Jascha Hoffman, The New York Times, 08.04.13) with David Eagleman whether science and religion are “opposing and irreconcilable forces”.

David Eagleman

En un ensayo que será publicado en el número 19 de la revista, Neil Langdon Inglis, Editor Adjunto de Interlitq, evaluará el legado del científico estadounidense, Carl Sagan

Neil Langdon Inglis

En un ensayo que será publicado en el número 19 de la revista, Neil Langdon Inglis, Editor Adjunto de Interlitq, evaluará el legado del científico estadounidense, Carl Sagan. Inglis escribe que “Carl Sagan was the most influential science educator of the late 20th century; his award-winning documentary Cosmos left an indelible impact on viewers and his books (The Dragons of Eden, The Demon-Haunted World) were enthusiastically devoured by his admirers.  He was also widely misunderstood by envious academic colleagues who derided him as a popularizer; and not all fans perceived the hard glint of scepticism beneath Sagan’s velvet delivery.  How well has Sagan’s work withstood the test of time?”

In an essay to be published in Issue 19 of the review, Neil Langdon Inglis, Deputy Editor of Interlitq, will consider the legacy of the “widely misunderstood” US scientist, Carl Sagan

Neil Langdon Inglis

In an essay to be published in Issue 19 of the review, Neil Langdon Inglis, Deputy Editor of Interlitq, will consider the legacy of US scientist, Carl Sagan. Inglis writes, “Carl Sagan was the most influential science educator of the late 20th century; his award-winning documentary Cosmos left an indelible impact on viewers and his books (The Dragons of Eden, The Demon-Haunted World) were enthusiastically devoured by his admirers.  He was also widely misunderstood by envious academic colleagues who derided him as a popularizer; and not all fans perceived the hard glint of scepticism beneath Sagan’s velvet delivery.  How well has Sagan’s work withstood the test of time?”

Carl Sagan

Writing in NPR (07.05.12) in “Reclaiming Rhetoric for the Modern Age”, scientist Stuart Kauffman invokes Stephen Greenblatt, the literary critic, theorist and scholar who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq: “I’m reading now the wonderful new book ‘The Swerve’, by Stephen Greenblatt, about the rediscovery of the Roman poet Lucretius in 1417 by one Poggio Bracciolini. He was a papal scribe and more, perhaps in the German monastery of Fulda. The discovery did much to pitch the Western world into the flowering humanism of the Renaissance, after perhaps 700 or 800 years of intellectual confinement to the authority of the church”. Kauffman then goes on to ponder, “why do we not teach rhetoric in the ancient sense now? I suspect the answer is the role of science since Newton”

Writing in NPR (07.05.12) in “Reclaiming Rhetoric for the Modern Age”, scientist Stuart Kauffman invokes Stephen Greenblatt, the literary critic, theorist and scholar who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq: “I’m reading now the wonderful new book The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt, about the rediscovery of the Roman poet Lucretius in 1417 by one Poggio Bracciolini. He was a papal scribe and more, perhaps in the German monastery of Fulda. The discovery did much to pitch the Western world into the flowering humanism of the Renaissance, after perhaps 700 or 800 years of intellectual confinement to the authority of the church”. Kauffman then goes on to ponder, “why do we not teach rhetoric in the ancient sense now? I suspect the answer is the role of science since Newton”.