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Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Cosmic Variance I Wish Your Wish Would Fall Off Are you the center of the Universe by daniel One topic which generated a lot of discussion at the Gravity and Cosmology meeting was the void model of the Universe . The basic argument is simple : the dark energy is an ugly addition to our cosmological standard model , with 70 of the energy density of the Universe some mysterious substance with weird properties . From a theoretical perspective , dark energy has the wrong density by many , many orders of magnitude , and worse , we may never be able to study it directly in the laboratory . Now suppose I told you I
, New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Jul 29 2010 No Longer Separate , Not Yet Equal by Jessica Pellien Filed in : Education Twitter 9:39am EST We published this relatively academic book last fall to some interest , but here we are almost 9 months later in the middle of a media maelstrom . As you may recall from our earlier post about this , the book has rocketed back into attention thanks to this piece from Minding the Campus this column in the New York Times and this colum n from Pat Buchanan Based on these articles , it seemed as though No Longer Separate , Not Yet Equal affirmed the existence of an admission bias against white students at the nation’s elite schools . The questions on everyone’s lips Is white anxiety justified Is it real We quickly fielded calls
: New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Jul 28 2010 Your New Reading List : Eric Posner’s Picks by Cassie Kingsbury Filed in : Books To Add To Your Reading List Twitter 11:40am EST Eric A . Posner Climate Change Justice offers three succinct but compelling suggestions . Anyone interested in history , current events , or just learning something new should check out his : list Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia , 1600-1947 by Christopher M . Clark provides a lucid history of that country , and is unusually well written . Conspirata : A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris details the life of Cicero through the eyes of Tiro , his slave and confidant , according to Harris Eric calls it a trashy but painless way to learn about Roman constitutional law .
. New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Jul 27 2010 Mark R . Cohen sets the bar by winning the first-ever Goldziher Prize by Christina Lau Filed in : Awards Twitter 12:37pm EST We’d like to congratulate PUP author Mark R . Cohen for winning the first-ever Goldziher Prize , presented by the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College , for Under Crescent and Cross : The Jews in the Middle Ages Named for the 19 th century Islamicist , Ignác Goldziher , a Hungarian Jew who revered Islam and Muslim people and validated Islamic studies in the 19 th century European university context , the prize announcement was made at an event at the Muslim American Society of Boston’s Islamic Cultural Center . An official presentation will take place
New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Jul 27 2010 What Killed Alexander the Great by Leslie Nangle Filed in : Archaeology and Ancient History Classics 9:18am EST Adrienne Mayor , author of The Poison King looks at what may have been the cause of Alexander the Great’s death . When Alexander suddenly became ill and never recovered over 2,000 years ago , his friends thought he might have been poisoned . Did bacteria from the River Styx have a role in his death DiscoveryNews reports the interesting possibilities at : http : bit.ly ate2al For more information about the River Styx poison from a working paper written by Adrienne Mayor , please visit the Princeton Stanford Working Papers in Classics : at The Deadly Styx River and the Death of Alexander Also by Adrienne :
, . New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Jul 26 2010 Happy Birthday , C.G . Jung by Leslie Nangle Filed in : C.G . Jung Psychology Twitter 1:28pm EST Carl Gustav Jung , the Swiss psychologist , was born July 26, 1875 and became the founder of analytical psychology . Jung’s well known concepts about archetype the collective unconscious and synchronicity continue to marvel modern readers . Princeton University Press is the proud publisher of C.G . Jung and many titles about Jung . For more information about Jung and his works , check out these : links Collected Works of C.G . Jung The first collected edition , in English translation , of the writings of the late Swiss . psychologist http : press.princeton.edu catalogs series bscwj.html Jung Seminars A selection from
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This image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before.
Evidence for a recoiling black hole has been found using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes.
At a distance of about 400 million light years from Earth, a massive "wall" of galaxies stretching tens of millions of light years.
This composite image of M82 shows Chandra X-ray Observatory data in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red.
Two different teams have reported using Chandra observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity on cosmic scales and test Einstein's theory of General Relativity.