The Art of Knife Forging: How High-End Chef’s Knives Are Made Hippo Reads Staff Ask Me Anything, Uncategorized In the context of the culinary profession, the sharpness of the knife is simply standard. Professional knives are not just tools, they are works of art sculptured into functional weaponry in the culinary...
UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law Hippo Reads Staff Science, Science & Medicine, Technology As professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, David A. Patterson has led a distinguished academic career since joining the faculty in 1977. Patterson developed RISC I, a microprocessor...
Refining the Blueprint of a Successful Democracy Hippo Reads Staff Academia, Government, Politics Called “sometimes brilliant and often moving” by Kirkus Reviews, Richard Lyons’ history writing draws on a lifetime of literary work spanning screenwriting, essays and poetry. A graduate of Loyola...
Hippo Reading List: Hurricane Harvey Hippo Reads Staff Science & Medicine Now that the devastatingly powerful Hurricane Harvey has made landfall, Texas is struggling to pick up the pieces, as the country at large wonders what we can learn from this disaster. (Don't forget to donate...
Recommended Summer Solstice Readings from Hippo Hippo Reads Staff Arts & Culture, Books Happy summer solstice, Hippo readers! What better way to celebrate our slide into the sticky days of midsummer by cracking open a new book? Here's what our staff and contributors are currently reading—and...
A Quick Primer on Emotional Labor Hippo Reads Staff Arts & Culture, Gender Studies Much has been written, and written well, about emotional labor.
“This is Genocide, Broadcast in Real Time”: An Interview with the Founders of Save the Syrian Children Hippo Reads Staff Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine For a long time, Tamar and Phil Koosed felt removed from the atrocities in Syria. They knew what was going on, but it just wasn't "their cause." And then they started seeing photos of children being...
