Mark MacNamara

long form profile of a dramatic soprano

In a polarized nation, victimhood is a badge of honor. It gives people strength. "The victim has become among…

Carl Hart is a neuroscientist and Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University-he was the first tenure…

Last week, biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake introduced Nautilus readers to Paul Stamets, a mycologist wh…

I am not the right person to recount the struggles of Black musicians to play in the country's great orchestr…

In our evolving understanding of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex has acquired a new persona in recent decades. I…

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We called Greg Carr the other day to talk about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa. Carr, who has been f…

Eugene Schieffelin was the eccentric ornithologist who in 1890 shipped 60 starlings from London to New York C…

Aubrey Bergauer is one who has broken through the clef ceiling of the classical music world, no less from the…

In the modern age of pharmacology, some of the newest heroes in the war against human disease are biologists …

In his poems about strange bodies buried in the bogs of Northern Europe, the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heane…

The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) opened on Thursday at the Fort Mason Center and runs fo…

For Dr. Legato, the preeminent saxman, the day begins when it begins; and if that sounds loose and self-indul…

In his classic book, The Maestro Myth, Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power, first published in 1991, Norman …

Jeffrey Pfeffer is a 71-year-old professor of business theory in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.…

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is that 46-year-old organizational prodigy known for collaborative leadership. …

The anti-immigrant phobias surging through Europe and North America have so far had little practical effect o…

The apparent stalling of the project to build a center for Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival has not sl…

In higher education, an issue du jour involves the debate over "trigger warnings." This is the notion that co…

It was the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Through a periscope, England was sailing along in …