Issa Rae: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl: …of her next Web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. The show follows the life of the titular awkward Black girl, played by Rae. “What influenced me to start Awkward Black Girl in the first place was just this negative representation of regular Black girls on television,” Rae told…

Issa Rae: I Hate L.A. Dudes, Color Creative, and memoir: …published her memoir, also titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, which became a New York Times bestseller.

Robert Stevenson: Films for Disney: Also successful was The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), with Tommy Kirk as a brilliant teenaged inventor; it spawned a sequel, The Monkey’s Uncle (1965), which Stevenson also helmed.

Kantō Range: …to the west in the Misaka-Tenshu range, which is crescent shaped and embraces a semicircular depression now buried by Mount Fuji. The western extension contains Mount Kenashi (6,381 feet), which is the highest peak in the southern section. Mount Kuro (5,878 feet) crowns the main body of the Tanzawa Mountains.

Sikhism: The 18th and 19th centuries: …several groups later known as misls or misals. Beginning as warrior bands, the emergent misls and their sardars (chieftains) gradually established their authority over quite extensive areas.

Le Misanthrope, satiric comedy in five acts by Molière, performed in 1666 and published the following year. The play is a portrait of Alceste, a painfully forthright 17th-century gentleman utterly intolerant of polite society’s flatteries and hypocrisies. He is hopelessly in love with the

Le Misanthrope, satiric comedy in five acts by Molière, performed in 1666 and published the following year. The play is a portrait of Alceste, a painfully forthright 17th-century gentleman utterly intolerant of polite society’s flatteries and hypocrisies. He is hopelessly in love with the

Misau, town and traditional emirate, northern Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the Misau River, the upper stretch of the Komadugu Gana. Originally inhabited by Hausa people, the town was captured in 1827 by the emirs Yakubu of Bauchi and Dan Kauwa of Katagum. The ensuing

Keira Knightley: Later films and theatrical work: Knightley later appeared in Misbehaviour (2020), a dramedy about a beauty pageant, and the true-crime drama Boston Strangler (2023), in which she played the reporter who broke the story about the infamous serial killer. In 2024 she took on the role of a spy who is joined by an…

silvergrass, (genus Miscanthus), genus of about 10 species of tall perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, native primarily to southeastern Asia. Eulalia, or Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis), and several other species sometimes are grown as lawn or border ornamentals for their silvery or

grassland: Origin: …or in New Guinea by pit-pit grass (Miscanthus floridulus), both of which grow 3 metres (9.8 feet) tall.

silvergrass: Giant miscanthus (M. ×giganteus) is a potential biofuel and biomass crop.

silvergrass: Eulalia, or Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis), and several other species sometimes are grown as lawn or border ornamentals for their silvery or white plumelike flower clusters; the dried heads often are used in decoration. Giant miscanthus (M. ×giganteus) is a potential biofuel and biomass crop.

miscarriage, spontaneous expulsion of the embryo or fetus from the uterus before the 20th week of pregnancy, prior to the conceptus having developed sufficiently to live without maternal support. An estimated 10 to 25 percent of recognized pregnancies are lost as a result of miscarriage, with the

Poliziano: …on classical philology is the Miscellanea (1489), two collections, each consisting of about 100 notes (centuria) on classical texts: these and other works laid the foundations for subsequent scholarly studies in classical philology.

Edward Waring: In 1762 Waring published Miscellanea analytica… (“Miscellany of analysis…”), a notoriously impenetrable work, but the one upon which his fame largely rests. It was enlarged and republished as Meditationes algebraicae (1770, 1782; “Thoughts on Algebra”) and Proprietates algebraicarum Curvarum (1772; “The Properties of Algebraic Curves”). It covers the theory…

Richard Savage: …the second edition of his Miscellaneous Poems (1728; 1st ed., 1726), Savage was the illegitimate son of Anne, Countess of Macclesfield, and Richard Savage, the 4th Earl of Rivers. His exact date of birth is uncertain. In any event, in November 1715 a young man taken into custody for having…

William Makepeace Thackeray: Early writings: …of these early writings in Miscellanies, 4 vol. (1855–57). These include The Yellowplush Correspondence, the memoirs and diary of a young cockney footman written in his own vocabulary and style; Major Gahagan (1838–39), a fantasy of soldiering in India; Catherine (1839–40), a burlesque of the popular “Newgate novels” of romanticized…

John Aubrey: His Miscellanies (1696), a collection of stories of apparitions and curiosities, was the only work that appeared during his lifetime. After his death, some of his antiquarian materials were included in The Natural History and Antiquities of . . . Surrey (1719) and The Natural History…

miscellany, a collection of writings on various subjects. One of the first and best-known miscellanies in English was the collection of poems by various authors published by Richard Tottel in 1557. Thereafter the miscellany became a popular form of publication, and many more appeared in the next 50

English literature: Elizabethan poetry and prose: …in 1557, and Richard Tottel’s Miscellany (1557) revolutionized the relationship of poet and audience by making publicly available lyric poetry, which hitherto had circulated only among a courtly coterie. Spenser was the first significant English poet deliberately to use print to advertise his talents.

misch metal, alloy consisting of about 50 percent cerium, 25 percent lanthanum, 15 percent neodymium, and 10 percent other rare-earth metals and iron. Misch metal has been produced on a relatively large scale since the early 1900s as the primary commercial form of mixed rare-earth metals. Misch

Dom, mountain peak, Valais canton, southern Switzerland. Part of the heavily glaciated Pennine Alps, called the Valaisan Alps in Switzerland, it rises to 14,911 feet (4,545 metres). The Dom is the third highest peak of the Alps, after Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa, and is the highest entirely in

Walter Mischel was an American psychologist best known for his groundbreaking study on delayed gratification known as “the marshmallow test.” Mischel was born the younger of two brothers. His father was a businessman. Following the Nazi occupation of Vienna (1938), he and his family immigrated to

François Truffaut: Early works: …short piece Les Mistons (1958; The Mischief Makers), depicted a gang of boys who thoughtlessly persecute two young lovers. It met with sufficient appreciation to facilitate his first feature-length film, Les Quatre Cents Coups. An evocation of the adolescent’s pursuit of independence from a staid adult world of conformity and…

Nürnberg Laws: Defining part-Jews—Mischlinge (“mongrels”)—was more difficult, but they were eventually divided into two classes. First-degree Mischlinge were people who had two Jewish grandparents but did not practice Judaism and did not have a Jewish spouse. Second-degree Mischlinge were those who had only one Jewish grandparent.

Rome: Churches and palaces: …in the Palazzo Bonaparte, now Palazzo Misciatelli. Across the way is the Palazzo Salviati, built by the duc de Nevers in the 17th century and owned in the 19th by Louis Bonaparte. The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj is a late 15th-century building behind a 1734 facade. It contains an art gallery,…

solution: …that all gases are completely miscible (mutually soluble in all proportions), but this is true only at normal pressures. At high pressures, pairs of chemically dissimilar gases may very well exhibit only limited miscibility. Many different metals are miscible in the liquid state, occasionally forming recognizable compounds. Some are sufficiently…

felony and misdemeanour: misdemeanour, in Anglo-American law, classification of criminal offenses according to the seriousness of the crime.

mise, in medieval England, any outlay of money and in particular the payment of taxation. The mise rolls (rotuli misae) of King John’s reign (1199–1216), which record payments made from the Exchequer to various departments of the royal household, illustrate the general meaning of the word. It was

Adolphe Appia: Four years later he published La Mise en scène du drame Wagnérien (1895; “The Staging of the Wagnerian Drama”), a collection of stage and lighting plans for 18 of Wagner’s operas that clarified the function of stage lighting and enumerated in detail practical suggestions for the application of his theories.…

Earth exploration: Electrical and electromagnetic methods: The mise-a-la-masse method involves putting one current electrode in an ore body in order to map its shape and location.

Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released that August. Fueled by the success of the single “Doo Wop (That Thing),” the album went multiplatinum in several countries, and in 1999 Hill was nominated for 10 Grammy Awards. She won five, including those for best new…

Misenum, ancient port of Campania, Italy, located about 3 miles (5 km) south of Baiae at the west end of the Gulf of Puteoli (Pozzuoli). Virgil in the Aeneid says the town was named after Aeneas’s trumpeter, Misenus, who was buried there. Until the end of the Roman Republic it was a favourite villa

Mark Antony: Civil war and triumvirate: …Antony and Octavian concluded a treaty with Sextus Pompeius (see Pompeius Magnus Pius, Sextus), who controlled the seas and had been blockading Italy.

The Miser, five-act comedy by Molière, performed as L’Avare in 1668 and published in 1669. The plot concerns the classic conflict of love and money. The miser Harpagon wishes his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, Anselme, who will accept her without a dowry, but she loves the penniless

Daniel Handler: …series, which also included The Miserable Mill (2000), The Ersatz Elevator (2001), The Slippery Slope (2003), The Penultimate Peril (2005), and The End (2006). Handler chronicled the youthful adventures of Snicket himself in the All the Wrong Questions series, which included Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012) and…

Patti LuPone: …performances as both Fantine in Les Misérables with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock won her the Laurence Olivier Award for best actress in a musical.

Richard Boleslavsky: In Les Misérables Charles Laughton (in a notable performance) played police inspector Javert, who hounds bread thief Jean Valjean (Fredric March). The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture and is regarded as one of the best adaptations of Victor Hugo’s novel. Metropolitan

Geoffrey Rush: …interpretations of Inspector Javert in Les Misérables (1998) and spy master Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth (1998); he reprised the latter role in the 2007 sequel. As theatre manager Philip Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and as a supervillain in the spoof Mystery Men (1999), Rush demonstrated

Sacha Baron Cohen: …film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables.

Claude Lelouch: …les autres (1981; Bolero) and Les Misérables (1995), an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel. The latter won a Golden Globe Award for best foreign film. Lelouch continued to direct into the early 21st century, and his films from this period included the dramedy Chacun sa vie (2017; Everyone’s Life)…

Les Misérables, novel by French author Victor Hugo, published in French in 1862. It was an instant popular success and was quickly translated into several languages. The novel is concerned with social issues in 19th-century urban France and uses realism to critique wealth distribution, the justice

five hundred: Misère is beaten by any bid of eight or more tricks, but open misère is the highest-possible bid. Declarer leads first. (At open misère the hand is spread faceup before the opening lead.) Players must follow suit if possible; otherwise, they may play any card.…

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Early life and education: …misère de la philosophie (1847; The Poverty of Philosophy, 1910). It was the beginning of a historic rift between libertarian and authoritarian Socialists and between anarchists and Marxists which, after Proudhon’s death, was to rend Socialism’s First International apart in the feud between Marx and Proudhon’s disciple Bakunin and which…

prayer: Confession: The Miserere (“Lord, have mercy,” Psalm 51) of the ancient Israelite king David expresses repentance for sin with an intensity and depth that has a universal value. One of the results of such a dialogue with God is the discovery of the dark depths of sin.

Thomas Tallis: …art of counterpoint: the seven-part Miserere nostri, an extraordinary feat of canonic writing, involving retrograde movement together with several degrees of augmentation; and the famous 40-part Spem in alium, considered a unique monument in English music.

The Mill on the Po, trilogy of novels by Riccardo Bacchelli, first published in Italian as Il mulino del Po in 1938–40. The work, considered Bacchelli’s masterpiece, dramatizes the conflicts and struggles of several generations of a family of millers. The first two volumes, Dio ti salve (1938; “God

Jacques Callot: …(1632) and the “large” (1633) The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, he brought his documentary genius to bear on the atrocities of the Thirty Years’ War. Callot is also well known for his landscape drawings in line and wash and for his quick figure studies in chalk.

Rob Reiner: Success as a film director: …turned to darker material with Misery (1990), an adaptation of a King novel that starred Kathy Bates as a woman who imprisons a writer (James Caan) whose work she adores. Bates’s frenzied but humane turn as the crazed Annie Wilkes earned her an Academy Award for best actress. The courtroom…

Stephen King: Other novels: …1990; films 2017 and 2019); Misery (1987; film 1990); The Tommyknockers (1987; TV miniseries 1993); and The Dark Half (1989; film 1993).

mechanics of solids: Continuum plasticity theory: The Mises theory incorporates a proposal by M. Levy in 1871 that components of the plastic strain increment tensor are in proportion to one another just as are the components of deviatoric stress. This criterion was generally found to provide slightly better agreement with experiment than…

Ludwig von Mises was an Austrian-American libertarian economist known for his contribution to liberalism in economic theory and his belief in the power of the consumer. Von Mises was a professor at the University of Vienna (1913–38), and during this time he served as a mentor to F.A. Hayek. He fled

Richard von Mises was an Austrian-born American mathematician, engineer, and positivist philosopher who notably advanced statistics and probability theory. Von Mises’s early work centred on geometry and mechanics, especially the theory of turbines. In 1913, during his appointment at the University

valley: Misfit streams: Another manifestation of the impact of climatic change is the misfit stream. Such streams are those for which some practical measure of size, most often the meander wavelength, indicates that the modern river is either too large or too small for the valley…

The Misfits, American film drama, released in 1961, that is perhaps best remembered as the final movie of screen legends Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The Misfits, directed by John Huston, is a contemporary tale of the West that centres on aging cowboys. Out of their element in the modern world,

Pierce Brosnan: Later work: …in a gold heist in The Misfits and a suspicious fertility doctor in False Positive. He starred as King Louis XIV in The King’s Daughter (2022) and as a possible criminal mastermind in the action-comedy The Out-Laws (2023); both films were panned by critics. In 2023 he movingly portrayed Artie…

Richard Howard: …poetry included Two-Part Inventions (1974), Misgivings (1979), Lining Up (1984), No Traveller (1989), Selected Poems (1991), Without Saying (2008), and A Progressive Education (2014).

weatherfish, any of certain fishes of the loach (q.v.)

loach: The European weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis) is a yellowish fish about 25 centimetres long, banded and speckled with brown; like the similar Japanese weatherfish (M. anguillicaudatus), it is named for its heightened activity during periods of rapid change in barometric pressure, such as occur before a storm.

biblical literature: Collations of the Masoretic materials: …Masoretic traditions was made by Mishael ben Uzziel in his Kitāb al-Ḥulaf (before 1050). A vast amount of Masoretic information, drawn chiefly from Spanish manuscripts, is to be found in the text-critical commentary known as Minhath Shai, by Solomon Jedidiah Norzi, completed in 1626 and printed in the Mantua Bible…

Khaled Meshaal is an exiled Palestinian politician who served as the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas from 1996 until 2017. In 2021 he was tapped to head Hamas’s office for Palestinian refugees and exiles. After the assassination in 2024 of Ismail Haniyeh, who

Mishawaka, city, St. Joseph county, northern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the St. Joseph River, just east of South Bend. The community was founded around the St. Joseph Iron Works, built in 1833 to exploit nearby bog iron deposits, and two years later a village was platted under the company name; in

Tatar language: …Tatar (spoken in Tatarstan) and Western or Misher Tatar. Other varieties include the minor eastern or Siberian dialects, Kasimov, Tepter (Teptyar), and Astrakhan and Ural Tatar. Kazan Tatar is the literary language.

punch’ŏng pottery, decorated celadon glazed ceramic, produced in Korea during the early Chosŏn period (15th and 16th centuries). Punch’ŏng ware evolved from the celadon of the Koryŏ period. Combined with the celadon glaze is the innovative Chosŏn surface decoration, which includes inlaying,

Mishima, city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the Izu Peninsula at the western foot of Mount Hakone. In early historic times it was the capital of Izu province (now part of Shizuoka prefecture). At the beginning of the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867) it

Mishima Yukio was a prolific writer who is regarded by many critics as the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century. Mishima was the son of a high civil servant and attended the aristocratic Peers School in Tokyo. During World War II, having failed to qualify physically for military

Yevgeny Plushchenko: …began working with skating coach Aleksey Mishin at the St. Petersburg Figure Skating School. He was already able to perform the triple jumps roughly, and by the time he was 12 he had perfected them. At age 14 he landed a quad for the first time. He also added the…

Sino-Tibetan languages: Tibetic languages: …comprises the Bodish-Himalayish, Kirantish, and Mirish language groups.

Tabernacle, (“dwelling”), in Jewish history, the portable sanctuary constructed by Moses as a place of worship for the Hebrew tribes during the period of wandering that preceded their arrival in the Promised Land. The Tabernacle no longer served a purpose after the erection of Solomon’s Temple in

al-Ghazālī: …discussed in Mishkāt al-anwār (The Niche for Lights). Al-Ghazālī’s abandonment of his career and adoption of a mystical, monastic life is defended in the autobiographical work al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl (The Deliverer from Error).

photoreception: Central processing of visual information: Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin formulated the idea that there are two processing streams emanating from V1—a dorsal stream leading to the visual cortex of the parietal lobe and a ventral stream leading to the visual regions of the temporal lobe. The dorsal stream provides the parietal lobe…

Judaism: Major medieval Hebrew collections: …than Arabic sources are the Mishle shuʿalim (“Fox Fables”) of Berechiah ha-Nakdan (“the Punctuator”), who may have lived in England near the end of the 12th century. About half of these tales recur in Marie de France’s Ysopet, and only one of them is of specifically Jewish origin. Berechiah’s work…

Mishmi, tribal people mostly of Arunachal Pradesh (formerly North East Frontier Agency) in extreme northeastern India, near Tibet and Assam, speaking dialects of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family. Numbering about 35,000 in the late 20th century, the Mishmi live along the valleys of the Dibang

Dibang Valley: The Mishmi Hills, a southward extension of the Himalayas, constitute most of the northern part of the region. They have an average elevation of 15,000 feet (4,500 metres) and are dotted with passes such as Yonggyap at 13,000 feet (3,950 metres) and Kaya at 15,600 feet…

takin: The Mishmi takin (B. t. taxicolor) lives in the border area between Tibet, Myanmar, Bhutan, and India. The Sichuan takin (B. t. tibetana) lives in eastern Tibet and in the Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces of China. White’s, or Bhutan, takin (B. t. whitei) inhabits Bhutan,…

Mishna, the oldest authoritative postbiblical collection and codification of Jewish oral laws, systematically compiled by numerous scholars (called tannaim) over a period of about two centuries. The codification was given final form early in the 3rd century ad by Judah ha-Nasi. The Mishna

Mishna, the oldest authoritative postbiblical collection and codification of Jewish oral laws, systematically compiled by numerous scholars (called tannaim) over a period of about two centuries. The codification was given final form early in the 3rd century ad by Judah ha-Nasi. The Mishna

Hebrew language: …Bible (Old Testament) is written; Mishnaic, or Rabbinic, Hebrew, the language of the Mishna (a collection of Jewish traditions), written about 200 ce (this form of Hebrew was never used among the people as a spoken language); Medieval Hebrew, from about the 6th to the 13th century ce, when many…

Mishna, the oldest authoritative postbiblical collection and codification of Jewish oral laws, systematically compiled by numerous scholars (called tannaim) over a period of about two centuries. The codification was given final form early in the 3rd century ad by Judah ha-Nasi. The Mishna

Mishne Torah, extensive commentary on the Talmud, composed in the 12th century by the renowned Jewish philosopher and scholar Moses Maimonides. Each of its 14 volumes deals with a group of laws covering one subject. Among the subjects are ethical conduct, civil laws, torts, marriage and divorce,

I.J. Singer: …by Di mishpoḥe Ḳarnovsḳi (The Family Carnovsky).

Chaitanya was a Hindu mystic whose mode of worshipping the god Krishna with ecstatic song and dance had a profound effect on Vaishnavism in Bengal. The son of a Brahman, he grew up in an atmosphere of piety and affection. He received a thorough education in the Sanskrit scriptures and, after the

Turks and Caicos Islands: History: …which time the territory’s leader, Michael Misick, became prime minister. However, he resigned in March 2009 after an official investigation found evidence of systemic bureaucratic corruption and “administrative incompetence.” In August of that year the British government declared a temporary suspension of the Turks and Caicos constitution and imposed direct…

Misima Island, volcanic island of the Louisiade Archipelago in Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is situated 125 miles (200 km) southeast of the island of New Guinea. The island measures about 25 miles by 6 miles (40 by 10 km) and has an area of some 100 square miles (260 square km).

deepfake: …and fake, addressing that the content is not real. The term came to be used for synthetic media in 2017 when a Reddit moderator created a subreddit called “r/deepfakes” and began posting videos that used face-swapping technology to insert celebrities’ likenesses into existing pornographic videos.

Misinformation is the inadvertent spread of false information without intent to harm, while disinformation is false information designed to mislead others and is deliberately spread with the intent to confuse fact and fiction. Identifying and combating the spread of mis- and disinformation is a

Misiones, isolated provincia (province) of northeastern Argentina. Misiones lies between the Alto (Upper) Paraná River and Paraguay to the west, the Iguazú (Iguaçu) River (and tributaries) and Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River (and tributaries) and Brazil to the east and southeast, and

Misiones Mountains, low range in northeastern Argentina. It averages 1,500 feet (460 metres) in elevation and extends about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the Brazilian border, between the Paraná and Uruguay

Misiones Mountains, low range in northeastern Argentina. It averages 1,500 feet (460 metres) in elevation and extends about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the Brazilian border, between the Paraná and Uruguay

Macedonian literature: …and literature, in particular by Krste Misirkov in his Za Makedonskite raboti (1903; “In Favour of Macedonian Literary Works”) and in the literary periodical Vardar (established 1905). These efforts were continued after World War I by Kosta Racin, who wrote mainly poetry in Macedonian and propagated its use through the…

Dick Dale: Career: …when his signature song “Misirlou” was featured during the opening credits of director Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster crime film Pulp Fiction. “Misirlou” became associated with the popularity and perceived hipness of the film and was featured in numerous commercials and television shows, which introduced Dale’s music to a new generation…

Miskito, Central American Indians of the lowlands along the Caribbean coast of northeastern Nicaragua. They were encountered by Columbus on his fourth voyage and have been in steady European contact since the mid-17th century. In the late 20th century five subgroups existed, with a total population

Mosquito Coast, coastal region of Nicaragua and Honduras. It comprises a band approximately 40 miles (65 km) wide of lowland that skirts the Caribbean Sea for about 225 miles (360 km). Although it was visited by Columbus in 1502, Europeans had little contact with the area until the rise of the

Miskolc, city of county status and seat of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye (county), northeastern Hungary. It lies in the valley of the Szinva, a small tributary of the Sajó River, on the eastern margin of the Avas Hills, which form part of the Bükk limestone plateau. Caves in the limestone hills were

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén: …the support provided by the University of Miskolc

Sikhism: The 18th and 19th centuries: …several groups later known as misls or misals. Beginning as warrior bands, the emergent misls and their sardars (chieftains) gradually established their authority over quite extensive areas.

Italy: The rebellions of 1831 and their aftermath: Two Carbonari, Enrico Misley and Ciro Menotti, put their trust in the duke of Modena, Francis IV of Habsburg-Este, who was looking for an opportunity to expand his small state. But when Francis discovered that the Austrian police knew of the plot, he had Menotti and others…

nucleic acid: Repair: …important mechanism is that of mismatch repair, which has been studied extensively in E. coli. The system is directed by the presence of a methyl group within the sequence GATC on the template strand. Comparable systems for mismatch repair also operate in eukaryotes, though the template strand is not marked…

Stephen Jay Gould: …books Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (1987), and Wonderful Life (1989), he traced the course and significance of various controversies in the history of evolutionary biology, intelligence testing, geology, and paleontology. From 1974 Gould regularly contributed essays to the periodical Natural History,…