Category Archives: Arts/Humanities, Social Sciences & Science

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the earth at an average altitude of 240 miles. It’s traveling at a speed of about 17,000 mph and is roughly the size of a football field. There is an international, six-person crew on … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered about the scale of the universe from the smallest microscopic entity up to the extent of our vast universe? Scale of the Universe presents this concept beautifully using simple illustrations, a horizontal slider, and minimal text. … Continue reading →

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is an agency within the Library of Congress, acting as a think tank, provides policy and legal analysis on topics including domestic law, foreign affairs, and finance to committees and Members of Congress. While CRS … Continue reading →

This year commemorates the anniversary of two English composers: John Dowland (b. 1563) and Benjamin Britten (b. 1913). Although centuries apart, Britten was drawn to Dowland’s work as a source of English song composition and expressive musical gestures. The works … Continue reading →

April is National Poetry month, but why limit ourselves to just one month out of the year? Try out some of these services and apps to keep poetry in your life year-round. Poem-a-Day:  The American Academy of Poets will email … Continue reading →

Hopefully, you all had a chance to attend the recent Brown and Haley Lecture series featuring noted scholar Francis Fukuyama.  Dr. Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI’s … Continue reading →

On Friday, March 22, we learned the sad news that Chinua Achebe had passed away at age 82.  One of the giants of African literature—indeed, of world literature—Achebe’s 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart, explores the tragic consequences of cross-cultural misunderstanding … Continue reading →

The award-winning, critically-acclaimed play Photograph 51, by playwright Anna Ziegler, recently finished its run at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. It tells the story of British-born scientist Rosalind Elise Franklin (1920-1958), who was a physical chemist and expert at X-ray diffraction. … Continue reading →

Interested in reading about current events from an economic perspective? Concise and current, blogs are a great resource for keeping up with current events and conversations for scholars, laypeople, and those in between. Blog entries can run the gamut from … Continue reading →

My life changed one day in college when my astronomy class was treated to a look at Saturn through a small telescope. I was astounded. Why didn’t it fall? What kept the beautiful, ringed planet suspended in space?  This one … Continue reading →