ICYMI: A glimpse of an alternative economic and industrial history and future, in which the Luddites were successful in their battle against alienating technology: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-future-enc…
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- In “From the Earth to the Moon,” a group of ballistics experts and enthusiasts convene to build a cannon capable of firing a projectile to the moon. The story treats scientific advancement as destiny, writes Malka Older, but no character asks why. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/jules-vernes-e…
- "The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion.”
- In "The Language of the Face," a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi considers over a millennium's worth of primary sources to paint a splendid portrait of the face's cultural symbology: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047531/…
- New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📘
