A 17th century educational network could offer an alternative to universities under ideological attacks from the right.
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How a couple of students with too many books went and created their own public library.
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Robert Frost’s little-known fascination with science and how it turns up in his poetry.
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The idea is quite simple: you get a bunch of people together in one place where they sit quietly for a couple of hours reading books.
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Next week’s observance of Thanksgiving might be very different had two amateur scientists not played key roles in drafting the two most important documents in American history.
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If ever there was a time for starting a journal to record your own small part in all this, it is now.
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Seventy-five years ago this month an amateur weather-watcher from West Sussex published a landmark paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society directly linking the burning of fossil fuels to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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I like to see an old technology make a comeback, and I am pleased to report that this is happening with the humble index card.
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