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How Notting Hill Exposed Britain’s Postcolonial Crisis Roger Mayne and Stuart Hall's complementary visions reveal how racial animus in London reflected a deeper post-war crisis of whiteness and masculine identity.

After WWII, Britain's identity crisis was captured by Roger Mayne and interpreted by Stuart Hall, who revealed a neighborhood — and nation — grappling with prejudice and a loss of imperial power.

A 2D image of "Melancholy Wedgwood" on a light blue background.

Congratulations to Iris Moon, whose book "Melancholy Wedgwood" has received the Historians of British Art book award for best Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1600-1800: historiansofbritishart.org/hba-book-awa... @hba-caa.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for Cass Sunstein's "Separation of Powers" event at Politics and Prose with Cass's headshot next to the cover of his book.

Join @casssunstein.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social for a talk on "Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times."

📆 Sat, March 14th
🕓 3:00 PM
📍5015 Connecticut Ave NW, D.C.
(previous event rescheduled due to weather)

Link for details: politics-prose.com/cass-sunstei...

The @mitpress.bsky.social will be at this year's #PaxEast. We hope you'll swing by and check out our scifi/game design books. We'll have some special giveaways as well.

Visit us at booth 21097.

The Vanishing Giants of America’s Steam Age Coaling towers are little-known railroad relics that take many forms. But each evokes a subtle grandeur of industrial might.

"To the uninitiated, these industrial ruins could be totems from a lost civilization."

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The Very First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar A revolution was televised in 1972. It cost beer drinkers 25¢ a play. After work, thirsty folks rambled into Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, CA to knock back frothy, cool mugs and test their skill…

One spot. Two paddles. A square ball, net, and score. That’s it.

Hand holding a copy of "Of One Blood" by Pauline Hopkins on a plain background. The cover features a stylized illustration by Seth.

"A seminal work of Black speculative fiction. Over a century since its original publication, Hopkins’s classic remains as relevant today as ever." — @pdjeliclark.bsky.social

We highly recommend Pauline Hopkins' "Of One Blood" to broaden your #scifi reading list: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254429...

Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests It is time to move beyond the “baby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.

The brain could be rewiring in a positive way to adapt for motherhood, says Susana Carmona (author of the forthcoming book, "A Mother's Brain"):

From the Earth to the Moon In an age when the idea of a “planet B” seems tempting, this edition of Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a complete...

#SFinTranslation out this June:

From the Earth to the Moon: Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age, by Jules Verne, tr by Walter James Miller, @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255386...

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature The explosive growth of AI and machine learning in recent decades is predicated on the recognition and exploitation of patterns in data. Of course, scientist...

This is about to be released:

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Scott Solomon in front of a world map holding a sign that reads: Reddit! I'm Scott Solomon AMA Thurs, Mar 5 11 am - 1 pm ET u/the_mit_press

How will humans evolve on Mars? Join @scottsolomon.bsky.social, the author of "Becoming Martian," for a Reddit AMA at r/space tomorrow at 11 am EST!

Psychopathy is a zombie idea. Why does it cling on? | Aeon Essays Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?

Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?

(the latest from Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, author of "Psychopathy Unmasked")

3D image of "Every Living Creature: How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives" by Joshua D. Mezrich, MD on a dark pink background. The cover features silhouettes of a pig and various body organs.

In "Every Living Creature," award-winning transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich explores the incredible history and promise of inter-species organ transplantation to provide a hopeful look toward the future of medicine. Out April 7th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205116...

A copy of "Start with Questions: The Classroom as Design Studio" on a plain background. The cover features multiple rows of question marks in different fonts of various colorful backgrounds.

Out today, @karenbrennan.bsky.social and Sarah Blum-Smith explore how K–12 teachers support students’ self-directed learning in "Start with Questions," a compelling vision of classrooms as design studios: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205146...

Free registration is open for the 2026 Environmental Humanities Symposium, hosted by the Environmental Humanities Initiative together with CCEP!

Keynoted by Javiera Barandiaran, who will speak about her brand new book *Living Minerals* for @mitpress.bsky.social

Register: shorturl.at/NauHZ

Amy Tan, Ekow Eshun and Michael Connelly among L.A. Times Book Prize honorees and finalists Novelists Amy Tan ('The Joy Luck Club') and Adam Ross ('Playworld') are among this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes honorees, while finalists include Michael Connelly, Stephen Graham Jones and Molly…

🥳 Congratulations to @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, whose book "Titans of Industrial Agriculture" has been named a finalist in the History Category for the 2025 @latimes.com Book Prizes!

Winners will be announced on April 17th, at the LA Times Festival of Books:

Very sorry to hear of Dagfinn's passing. He graciously agreed to write an introduction to the new edition of Quine's 'Word and Object' that @mitpress.bsky.social published in 2013.

How Albert Einstein Found Faith at the Edge of Reason Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.

As a boy, Albert Einstein felt “deep religiosity.” Then, at 12, science became his second paradise. But he never set one against the other, writing, “the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”

The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess) YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff

The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked.

We just didn't have a plan for what came next.

Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social:
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An open page of "The Inner Passage" featuring a black-and-white photograph of a landscape.

Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, known as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, and later used to escape slavery. "The Inner Passage" documents the lost narrative of this southern waterway: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205171...

Screenshot of an oped headline and description from the Washington Post. The flaw that could prevent humans from becoming deep-space explorers NASA should focus on the boday and mind, not just engineering, for cosmic travel.

"As a scientist and explorer, I understand the allure ... Humans, however, have one essential flaw that makes us poorly suited to being deep-space explorers."

@scottsolomon.bsky.social explains how our biology could hinder cosmic space travel: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Three 3D book covers on a bright green background: Expecting Inequity, Profit Vs. Progress, and The Curie Society: Game of Code.

This month: an unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US; a visionary account of how genome writing can help preserve the planet; the young heroes of the Curie Society take on a new mission; and more: mitpress.mit.edu/march-2026-b...

Bridgebuilders and Historians Turned Metal Into Myth Historians often reinforce evolutionist narratives that rank civilizations and nationalize invention.

Interesting combined material and conceptual history here:

Bridgebuilders and Historians Turned Metal Into Myth thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/bridgebuilde... #Bridges #Engineering #Evolution #Metal via @mitpress.bsky.social

#Anthropology #STS

This BHM, we’re highlighting some of the remarkable people we have the honor of working with. These dedicated, brilliant folks are championing environmental justice, changing the conversation, advancing science, reclaiming land, advancing science, and more. #BlackHistoryMonth #EnvironmentalJustice

A 3D image of "Beatrice the Sixteenth" by Irene Clyde on a blue background. The cover features a stylized illustration of a feminine statue posed sitting among torches. A note indicates an introduction by Lucy Sante is included.

Coming soon to the Radium Age series, "Beatrice the Sixteenth" follows its protagonist to an alternate Earth where she stumbles upon a utopian society in which the very concept of gender is unknown: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205162...

Really pleased to see "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress.bsky.social on this list from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social And very happy to see it in such good company.

The Procedure Awards – Honoring Bold Healthcare Books - Uncommon Bold Recognizing imaginative books that challenge conventional narratives in medicine and rethink how our healthcare systems work.

Honored to share that Nora Kenworthy has received the first annual Procedure Awards for her book "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare." This award celebrates bold books that reimagine healthcare. Congratulations, Nora @kenworthy.bsky.social!

The biological necessity of boredom in the age of screens "I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to…

The modern brain is no different than that of our distant Stone Age ancestors, but our environments have changed dramatically. With so many demands on our attention, we are simply overwhelmed.

Author Richard Cytowic explains how our Stone Age brains can cope in the age of screens:

Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail A sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them.The existential risks posed to the world

A free book about bad decisions involving nuclear weapons. What's not to like?

Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail
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