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In the collection of essays The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew (Pantheon Books), physicist and novelist Alan Lightman ’70 explores, among other topics, the possibility that there are multiple universes; our longing for permanence despite “the fleeting nature of things”; and how technology can separate us from nature and other people.

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Gabriel Finkelstein *96 calls Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896) “the most important forgotten intellectual of the 19th century.” In the biography Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany (The MIT Press), Finkelstein brings attention to this pioneering German scientist, who gained recognition for his research in neuroscience and his public lectures on science and culture.

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Noise Petals was a 1980s rock band that performed at Princeton. The group — James Trigg ’88, Jeremy Toback ’88, Tom Stegeman ’89, and Hearn Cho ’88 — which disbanded, has released a digital album of its 1988 vinyl LP through CollegeBand.