Things Noted Here & There

The Giant's Shoulders #31, the history of science carnival, is up at Morning Coffee Physics.

Ingrid D. Rowland,"The Worldly Temptations of Lucas Cranach," NYRBlog, 15 January, reviews"Lucas Cranach: A Different Renaissance," an exhibit at Rome's Borghese Gallery.

Gordon Wood,"No Thanks for the Memories," NYRB, 13 January, his review of Jill Lepore's The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History, continues to provoke discussion. See: Facebook (31 December), Hysteriography (31 December), The Way of Improvement Leads Home (4 January), Cliopatria (5 January), 3 quarks daily (9 January), American Creation (11 January), U.S. Intellectual History (11 January), and Tenured Radical (15 January).

Michael Idov,"Don't You Know Who I Am?" The Book, 17 January, reviews Craig Robertson's The Passport In America: The History of a Document.

Thomas E. Ricks,"Determined to Strike," NYT, 14 January, and Michiko Kakutani,"Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling," NYT, 17 January, review Peter L. Bergen's The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda.

Tristram Hunt interviews Eric Hobsbawm"about Marx, student riots, the new Left, and the Milibands" for the Guardian, 16 January.