Howard Burton

PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES offers a critical examination of several key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic through the prism of a wide array of international experts in immunology, epidemiology, biomedics, medicine, evolutionary biology, psychology, neuroscience, history, education, law, economics, business and more.

Fascinating insights from marine biologist Edie Widder, ORCA, and business professor Andre Hoffman, University of Michigan, about the different paths they followed to become environmental scientists.

Five experts describe how their attitudes and approaches to research were strongly influenced by the insights or attitudes of others.

Three researchers (Josiah Ober, Richard Janko, Susan Wolf) shed light on different aspects of the Classical Greek World, from the workings of Athenian democracy, to Aristotle’s philosophical method, to the place of religion in Classical Athens after the Peloponnesian War.

Four different experts (Mark Bevir, Brian Epstein, Nile Green, Jennifer Michael Hecht) give their candid perspectives on how social science research should be improved.

Freeman Dyson, Paul Steinhardt, Michael Gordin and Nobel Laureate Tony Leggett briefly examine the so-called "anthropic principle" that is currently in vogue in many areas of fundamental physics.

Four historians (David Armitage, Maria Mavroudi, Quentin Skinner, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill) give their perspectives on daily life in Ancient Rome, from the way people lived, to the role of law in society, to the legacy of the Civil Wars.

A political scientist, historian and writer offer brief insights into various aspects of past and present Indian society. Featured are John Dunn, Nile Green and Pankaj Mishra.

Six renowned physicists (Roger Penrose, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert, Scott Tremaine and Nobel Laureates David Politzer and Tony Leggett) describe a spectrum of outstanding issues in current theoretical physics, from foundations of quantum mechanics to particle physics to astrophysics and cosmology.

Five diverse experts in history, psychology, marine biology and Asian Studies (Michael Berry, Carol Dweck, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Edie Widder, and Philip Zimbardo) give their views on how to improve the high school experience.