New York, NY: If you’re free this coming Sunday, May 2nd, Editors Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman are celebrating the publication of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York at the Bowery...
Last week, Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted a four-day summit on climate change – the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Attracting more than...
In Ravenna in Late Antiquity, Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis looks at one of the most important cities of late antique Europe over the course of 350 years – tracing its expansion as well as its artistic...
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day – the birth of the modern environmental movement – and a great moment to reflect on how far we’ve come since 1970. In a year that witnessed the failed...
Some say climate change is a farce. Some say the sky is falling. Now, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist tells the real story… Listen here to Dr. Burton Richter talk about Beyond Smoke and Mirrors on...
Congratulations to Prof. Ellen Bialystok and Dr. James Tully, winners of the $100,000 2010 Killam Prize – Canada’s most distinguished annual award for outstanding career achievements in health...
Cristina Mazzoni, author of the very cool, very new, She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, bids happy birthday to Rome – and explains how the she-wolf became a potent symbol over the course of the past...
So, you want to go see the Iceland volcano? If planes were flying to Iceland right now, would you go and see the eruption up close? Is it dangerous? How close can you actually get to an erupting volcano? The...
The idea of New York looms large over the landscape of American literature – a towering metropolis, a symbol of transience and mobility, of culture, of urbanism, and of change. From Harlem to the...
Bjorn Lomborg, author of the internationally acclaimed The Skeptical Environmentalist, talks about stumbling in the dark during EARTH HOUR. In March, nearly a billion people participated – switching...
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