Stem Cells Offer Hope for Treating Type I Diabetes
Douglas Melton’s stem cell lab at Harvard published a landmark study in Cell documenting a huge step towards treating Type I Diabetes
How Not to Pay for Race Discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that it's suing four Whitten Inn hotels over race discrimination
A New Flannery O’Connor Archive Goes to Emory
Flannery O'Connor's archive is now available to students and scholars—along with 30 boxes filled with letters, journals, drafts, juvenilia, and other personal effects at Emory University's Rare Book Library (MARBL).
Volcanoes or “Volcanoes”? Gleaning Insights from Informal Research
When informal research are used for scientific sources
Laika: The First Earthling in Space
The first Earthling was Laika, a Russian mongrel found on the streets of Moscow.
YIVO Vilna Project Will Digitize Jewish History
It's an exciting time for Yiddish scholarship. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has announced the start of its YIVO Vilna Project, a $5.25 million, 15-year endeavor to unite, at last, a collection of treasured documents that has been separated by an ocean for half a century .
Will the Fall of Cable Mean Darker TV?
Last week, HBO and CBS both announced plans for stand-alone online services, leading to much chatter about the end of cable TV as we know it.
Sea Monkeys Make the Ocean Go ‘Round
Turns out ocean currents might be created by…sea monkeys? Seriously.
Remembering and Representing Alan Turing
A 1955 obituary of Turing from the Royal Society is fascinating for what it leaves out of the first draft of history.
