August 25, 2013 at 7:00 am
Relating to CC201’s study of Montaigne is an article by Liam Julian of The Weekly Standard, discussing the Essays. Here is an extract: Begun in 1572, the Essays is Montaigne’s 20-year examination of his own life, and not the product of that examination, either, but the examination itself. It contains more than a hundred essays and some […]
August 23, 2013 at 10:40 am
Professor of History Diana Wylie (who has been lecturer, seminar leader, and course coordinator for Core in previous years) will be leaving us for a while. Don’t get too upset though; she’ll be spending that time as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Morocco. Prof Wylie has long been interested in this area of the […]
August 22, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Every new class adds something unique to Boston University, and no where is that more obvious than the highly discussion based Core classes, where a single different perspective can lead a whole discussion off course (only in the best way possible). What exactly defines the class of 2017 though? Well we can’t know, only you […]
August 21, 2013 at 1:21 pm
A report from Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries gives insight into how well “digital native” college students navigate the web and refine their searches. Their findings are not encouraging: The prevalence of Google in student research is well-documented, but the Illinois researchers found something they did not expect: students were not very good at using […]
August 20, 2013 at 12:18 pm
Today’s analect was inspired by Core alumni Tim Martinez (Core ’07-’09, CAS ’11) with reference to the study of Evolution and Society occurring in CC203, which Tim marks as one of his favorite courses he’s taken here at BU. Since taking it, he’s maintained a strong interest in Sociology, but has persisted in his IR […]
August 20, 2013 at 12:15 pm
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August 19, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Computers are everywhere in lecture halls these days. You look up from your notes, and the girl in front of you has the slides from the lecture up on her computer and is writing notes directly next to them (far superior to a three ring notebook); the guy three rows to the front has been […]
August 19, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Dear Zach and Rose, This is what Denali – the Great One – looks like on the rare day that it drops its veil and shows its face. An awesome sight. I hope all’s well in the Core. Warm regards, David Eckel
August 16, 2013 at 10:34 am
The University of Iowa library contains over 4,000 books that can fit into one’s palm. One book, however, has come to the attention of The Atlantic. This pea-sized volume measures a mere 0.138 inches square and 0.04 inches thick, so tiny it cannot be read with the naked eye. Recently library staff put the miniature […]
August 15, 2013 at 9:00 am
Relating to CC106’s study of biodiversity is a 1932 ‘histomap’ by John B. Sparks portraying evolution’s progress “for ten thousand million years”: To read criticism of this ‘histomap’, […]
