Announcements

Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series 2022 Hugo Awards Finalist

April 12, 2022

IFK Faculty Ada Palmer's series Terra Ignota is a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Series!
In the Media

How the Ukraine War has restarted the Space Race between Russia and the rest of the world

March 21, 2022

Jordan Bimm comments on the politics of space in Fortune Magazine
Features

Critical Periods in Science and the Science of Critical Periods: Canine Behavior in America - Brad Bolman

March 11, 2022

IFK postdoc Brad Bolman has a new article in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte on eugenics and the history of canine behavior studies in the United States
In the Media

On International Space Station, War In Ukraine Has Put ‘Crescendo’ On Already-Rising Tensions Between U.S. And Russia

March 01, 2022

Jordan Bimm discusses the history of Russia/U.S. space collaboration with CBS Chicago
Announcements

“The Maintenance of Ambiguity in Martian Exobiology”, co-authored by Jordan Bimm

March 01, 2022

New article co-authored by Jordan Bimm in the journal Social Studies of Science (SSS) about how astrobiologists sustain their scientific search for life in the cosmos without ever finding any

WIRED: Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress

February 11, 2022

"The past we think we know is wrong and so is the future." IFK Faculty Ada Palmer talks about dystopias, her science-fiction series Terra Ignota, and more with Wired Magazine.
Announcements

Ada Palmer presenting at Boskone, New England’s oldest science fiction convention

February 11, 2022

Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England.
In the Media

Robert J Richards on Nazi racial ideas

February 11, 2022

IFK Faculty Robert J Richards cited in Evolution News article "Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking"
In the Media

Is the legal standard for libel outdated?

February 04, 2022

IFK Faculty Genevieve Lakier looks at Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times and discusses the Sullivan rule in libel law, in the Washington Post. 
In the Media

‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster

January 18, 2022

IFK Faculty William Howell comments on the history of the filibuster
In the Media

Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy

January 18, 2022

IFK Faculty Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy on MSNBC

The Sleep of Reason Produces Cats

January 12, 2022

IFK Faculty Michael Rossi on Edward L. Thorndike’s experiments with cats and scientific experimentation
In the Media

There is no Planet B

January 11, 2022

Science fiction scholars and IFK postdocs Katherine Buse and Anastasia Klimchynskaya offer insight on sci fi history and planet speculation in Popular Science
In the Media

Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?

January 11, 2022

IFK Faculty Ada Palmer tells WIRED Voltaire could be considered the first Sci-Fi writer thanks to a piece he wrote in 1752, Micromegas which features aliens.
News

Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant

December 02, 2021

Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant