Lecture by Dr. Paul Bloom / 01.31.2007 Brooks and Suzanne Regan Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science Yale University Jean Piaget, Stage Theory and Its Limits Photograph Jean Piaget at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, 1968 / Wikimedia Commons Most of what we do these days – our methods, our theories, our[…]
Evolutionary tree / OneZoom Lecture by Dr. Stephen Stearns / 01.12.2009 Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University Introduction Biological evolution has two big ideas. One of them has to do with how the process occurs, and that’s called microevolution. It’s evolution going on right now. Evolution is going on in[…]
The newly found Gospel book in Bulgarian, in the Cyrillic (Bulgaric) alphabet, was printed in Vilnius in 1644, and contains notes left by the priests who used it. / National Museum of History, Bulgaria By Ivan Dikov / 01.25.2017 Archaeology in Bulgaria A Gospel Book in Bulgarian which is almost 400 years old, and was[…]
The memorandum gives Bannon, former executive chair of the rightwing website Breitbart News, a regular seat at some of the most sensitive meetings at the highest levels of government, along with other NSC meetings. (Photo: Reuters) ‘To reiterate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been removed from the National Security Council and replaced with a[…]
Medea Kills Her Children, by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, 1862, oil on canvas / Louvre Museum, Paris Medea in Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes Jason and Media, by John William Waterhouse, 1907, oil on canvas / Private Collection, Wikimedia Commons The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes was written during the 3rd century BCE and tells the story[…]
This marble plaque depicts a ‘parturition’, or birthing scene. Such scenes eased the fears of expectant mothers by depicting positive birthing images. Here, a pregnant woman reclines on a couch covered in drapes, attended by three women. They are dressed in classical Roman robes and one is holding the baby. / The plaque was excavated[…]
The only known photograph of five Harvard College/University Presidents sitting in order of when they served. Left-to-Right: Josiah Quincy III, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker and Cornelius Conway Felton. / Harvard University Library By Derek K. O’Leary / 01.23.2017 PhD Candidate in History University of California Berkeley Jared Sparks—editor, historian, Harvard president—deposited a bundle[…]
BrightStar By Dr. Dorothy Jakobsh Professor of Religious Studies University of Waterloo, Canada What is today known as the Bhakti Movement had its genesis in the South of India in the 6th century CE. It is characterized by the writings of its poet-saints, many of whom were female, that extolled passionate devotional love for the[…]
Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c.1790, oil on fabric / Carnavalet Museum Lecture by Dr. John Merriman / 09.22.2008 Charles Seymour Professor of History Yale University I want to do two things. I want to see the Revolution through the eyes of Maximilien de Robespierre, a member of the Committee of Public Safety — arguably,[…]
Philip of Macedon coin / British Museum Lecture by Dr. Donald Kagan / 12.06.2007 Sterling Professor of Classics & History Yale University The Rise of Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedon ivory portrait from tomb in Vergina / Wikimedia Commons It’s always useful to remember that while we look back on these events and[…]