More Noted Things

Three Quarks Daily announces the launch of the Quarks, annual prizes for the best blog entries in Science, Arts & Literature, Politics, and Philosophy. See the announcement for all of the details.

Carlos A. Driscoll, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Andrew C. Kitchener and Stephen J. O'Brien,"The Evolution of House Cats," Scientific American, June, says that recent research finds cats were domesticated earlier and elsewhere than we'd previously thought.

Spiegel Staff,"Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers," Der Spiegel, 20 May, looks at the active complicity of non-German Europeans in the Holocaust.

Finally, a belated farewell to Perez Zagorin, a distinguished American historian of 16th and 17th century Europe.