Richard Panek

Dec 6, 2024 | msn.com | Richard Panek

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Dec 6, 2024 | livescience.com | Richard Panek

In this excerpt from "" (Little, Brown Book Group, 2024), author Richard Panek looks at the jaw-dropping story behind the launch of the JWST — and how it almost fell at the final hurdle. In November 2011, Congress delivered its verdict on the fate of Webb. Yes, they would continue to fund it, but they would do so with a caveat, an inviolable budget cap:Eight billion bucks or bust. "If they're going to cancel, that's fine," Mike Menzel would tell his crew over the coming years. "Don't worry.

Nov 20, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Chase Jarvis |Richard Panek |Richard Munson |Donald Robertson

Donald Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist. He has been researching Stoicism for over twenty years and is one of the founding members of the non-profit Modern Stoicism. He is also the founder and president of the Plato’s Academy Centre non-profit in Greece. The philosophy and methods of Socrates can help bring calm and clarity to the distracted, nervous, and angry modern mind. His training techniques share remarkable overlaps with modern cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Aug 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | André Aciman |Jessica Valenti |Richard Panek

Nate Silver. Penguin Press, $32 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59420-412-8In this free-wheeling outing, statistician and professional poker player Silver (The Signal and the Noise) explores what he calls “the River”: people who make a living taking risks, from professional gamblers to venture capitalists. He pegs this group as a potent socioeconomic type—risk-tolerant, market-oriented, individualistic, contrarian—in opposition to “the Village,” the risk-averse realm of government bureaucrats and academics.

Aug 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | André Aciman |Jessica Valenti |Richard Panek

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. Doubleday, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-55044-4Bestseller Grisham (The Exchange) teams up with Centurion Ministries founder McCloskey (When the Truth Is All You Have), whose nonprofit works to exonerate wrongly accused individuals, to tell 10 such stories in this gripping account. In alternating chapters, Grisham and McCloskey cover cases with a variety of stakes and backgrounds—some involve forced confessions, others faulty forensics.