Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsApril 2024: Futility v. StrivingThe boundary between the supernatural and the natural was a major point of contention in the Reformations that transformed Europe in the…Apr 28Apr 28
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsAugust 2022: Surveillance, Socialism and Urban RestructuringIn the August issue, Zephyr Teachout writes that “corporations’ use of surveillance software increased by 50 percent in 2020 (the first…Oct 15, 2022Oct 15, 2022
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsApril 2022: Rationality, Regicide and the RamayanaIn a laboratory experiment at the Max Planck Research Station in Teneriffe, both macaws and parrots learned to take a nonedible token…Jun 12, 2022Jun 12, 2022
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsFebruary 2022: Satmars, Soil Erosion and the Subjectivity of AestheticsThe first city known to have had a municipal sewage system was Knossos, on the island of Crete, 4,000 years ago.Mar 27, 2022Mar 27, 2022
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsJuly 2021: Nazis, Nobles and NeutronsThe science of creaturely navigation is a contested research area, but it is now widely thought that many animals have what is called a…Aug 21, 2021Aug 21, 2021
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsMarch 2021: Hierarchy, Stoicism and the American RevolutionThe word hierarchy was invented around the year 500 by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his book The Celestial Hierarchy, to count and…Apr 12, 2021Apr 12, 2021
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsFebruary 2021: Marcus Garvey, Medicine’s Male Bias, and Making MistakesAlexandra Lahav’s research reveals that 27 percent of the large-scale consolidated mass tort lawsuits pending in the federal courts in…Mar 28, 2021Mar 28, 2021
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsDecember 2020: Algae power, musicology and Scalia’s legacyApparently Wyoming is the “wealth-friendliest” state in the USA, through a combination of loose residency requirements and low-to-no taxes…Jan 11, 2021Jan 11, 2021
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsDecember 2018 Itemized (Part I): Bees, Hell and Personality TestsWe humans have a way of turning our wildest imaginations into unquestionable beliefs, the foundations on which we construct some of our…Jan 15, 2019Jan 15, 2019
Aletheia DonaldinRead ReceiptsNovember 2018 Itemized: Mosquitoes, Modernity and MLKMove over, peppered moth. My new favorite example of human-driven natural selection in animals is the London Underground mosquito, also…Dec 15, 2018Dec 15, 2018
