Andrew Benedict-Nelson

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  Cigarette Stories

  Andrew Benedict-Nelson considers "The Cigarette: A Political History" by Sarah Milov.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonDec 6, 2019

  • History

  • Politics

  • Science & Technology

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  Everybody Hurts

  Travis Rieder’s “In Pain” provides us with a bioethics that is not passively analytical, but peacefully agitative.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonOct 25, 2019

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Science & Technology

• Rethinking the Invisible: Philip Ball’s Historical Account

  In "Invisible," Philip Ball addresses the relationship between scientific inquiry and our beliefs about the world beyond our senses.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonMay 21, 2015

  • History

  • Science & Technology

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  Woman out of Time: On “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

  The latest in the "man out of time" storytelling tradition, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" subverts the form, skewering the absurdity of our era.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 6, 2015

  • Television

• The Fight for America’s Classrooms

  The Teacher Wars is a lively case history of the nation’s teaching corps.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonNov 15, 2014

  • Nonfiction

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  Zen and the Art of Double Entry Bookkeeping: On Accounting and Accountability

  If we want more accountability in our public and private institutions, we must also ask more of ourselves, according to Andrew Soll.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 29, 2014
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  How to See the World As It Isn’t: Thinking with the Life of Louis Agassiz

  A mid-19th-century scientist can teach us a lot about how to see the world as it isn’t.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonFeb 17, 2014
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  What Can We Learn from Jared Diamond?

  Jared Diamond is undoubtedly of the cosmographic bent. We get to be like Montaigne, interpreting this traveler’s testimony according to our own purposes.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonAug 22, 2013

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