The unexpected ability of an RNA polymerase ribozyme to copy RNA into DNA has ramifications for understanding how DNA genomes evolved. By Dr. Peter J. Unrau (photo) and Razvan Cojocaru / 11.01.2017 Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Simon Frasier University For as long as history has been recorded, humanity has tried to answer the[…]
Wooden beams used in ancient structures in the Mesa Verde region, such as this one examined by the author in June 2007, hold clues about the area’s previous residents. / Steve Nash By Dr. Stephen E. Nash / 11.08.2017 Archaeologist and Historian of Science Denver Museum of Nature & Science In the fall of 1282,[…]
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France / Photo by GaryBlakeley, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Brandon / 11.07.2014 Chief Curator of War Art Canadian War Museum This article examines the Canada National Vimy Memorial in France as a work of art.[i] It explores its creator Walter Allward’s background, and the art historical inspirations and symbolic[…]
By Dr. Emma Barrett and Dr. Nathan Smith / 10.30.2017 Barrett: Research Fellow in Psychology, Lancaster University Smith: Honorary Lecturer, University of Exeter Medical School In 2014, 29-year-old Mohammed Uddin spent a few weeks with the Islamic State in Syria. On his return to the UK he was arrested and in 2016 convicted of preparing[…]
Canadian artist Alex Colville, war artist attached to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, on the Dutch/German border in the final months of WWII / Library and Archives Canada By Dr. Andrew Nurse / 10.25.2017 Associate Professor of Canadian Studies Mount Allison University By all accounts the 2014-5 Alex Colville retrospective — staged first by the AGO — was a monumental[…]
Ernest Hemingway with a bull near Pamplona, Spain in 1927, two years before ‘A Farewell to Arms’ would be published. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston By Dr. Verna Kale / 11.12.2017 Associate Editor, The Letter of Ernest Hemingway Assistant Research Professor of English Pennsylvania State University When he published “The[…]